John Schluter
Advisor
After working with Cooper Brothers & Co and qualifying as a certified accountant, John spent nearly 40 years working in the coffee industry, initially in Uganda, Kenya, the DRC, Tanzania and Ethiopia. From the early 1980’s he directed the company’s main trading office in London, and later Switzerland, working directly with African origin producers and exporters, and with associated offices in 6 producing countries. After handing the family company to the next generation in 2003, he founded Café Africa in 2006 to address the potential for Africa’s coffee sector to provide a sustainable way of reducing poverty in many rural African economies and to meet growing world. demand