Cafentity · Leadership
Co-Founder & Chief Coffee Officer
Master cupper, green coffee trader and broker, and certification facilitator for Rainforest Alliance, Organic and Fair Trade. From seed to cup, 47 years of hands-on coffee leadership.
Bayron Aranda is a coffee professional whose career covers every link of the value chain: farm management, wet and dry milling, quality control, export, roasting and private-label brand building. He trained as a cupper at Carcafé in Colombia under Swiss and French master tasters Roland Sigg and Roger Marc Lebreton.
He now trades single-origin green coffee bought directly from farms and ships it FOB to buyers in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He guides producers to Rainforest Alliance, Organic and Fair Trade certification, is CQI-credentialed, and teaches coffee quality courses across South America, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. At Cafentity he is responsible for sourcing, quality and trade.
Long-standing relationships with producers at origin. Cafentity buys at the source, with full traceability and no intermediaries.
Every lot is cupped and graded by a master taster, with pre-shipment and arrival samples approved before release.
About 30 containers a year on FOB terms, priced per contract, with established logistics into 11 markets.
He has built and run mills, cupping labs and a 350,000 lb-per-month roasting plant, and grew it by more than 1,400% in three years.
Co-Founder & Chief Coffee Officer
Leads green coffee sourcing, quality assurance, cupping and trade for Cafentity’s import, roasting and private-label divisions.
Founder & Principal Consultant
Green coffee trading and brokerage, quality audits, certification guidance and seed-to-cup consulting for producers, co-ops, roasters and investors.
Consultant
Field cost study (cost per acre, breakeven, return rate) for coffee, cacao and minor fruits. Developed an export roasted-coffee brand.
Interim Executive Director
Set the foundation’s program structure and trained its staff.
Consultant
Cherry-to-cup operations, quality, costing, distribution, marketing and coffee-shop development. Launched 8 products.
General Manager
Built the roasting plant and ran production, quality, blends, costing, distribution, marketing and brand development.
Director of Foreign Trade & Processing Technician
Export programs to Europe, Asia and the USA; wet-processing support for producer communities.
President · Specialty Coffee Market Specialist
Dry milling and processing, national and international trade, and specialty coffee marketing to Europe, Asia and the USA.
Dry Mill Manager · General Manager · Marketing Manager
Carcafé S.A., Coffee Axis: Dry Mill Manager, then General Manager (Acme, Real Colombia, La Mariela mills). Coofedenat / Comité de Cafeteros de Antioquia: Southwest Dry Mill Manager. Frederman Hincapié Parra: Mill and Marketing Manager. Independent trader across Colombia. Entered the industry in 1980 (Restrepo Alzate Ltda.).
Notable green coffee buyers
Markets served
United States · Puerto Rico · Italy · Belgium · France · Russia · Japan · Germany · South Korea · Spain · Middle East
Credentials
Technical expertise
Names reflect Bayron Aranda’s work across his career. Client blend formulas are never disclosed.
Tell us the origins, volume and roast style you need. Bayron and the sourcing desk reply within one business day with availability, cup profile and a quote at the day’s market.
