Marcelo Siqueira

Marcelo is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive of the Cannabis, floriculture and plant biotechnology sector. Native to Brazil, and with a long professional career in the United States, Marcelo brings to the team over 25 years of experience in the floriculture sector and in the Cannabis industry. He has a solid reputation for being a pioneer of the cannabis industry in Colombia, his technical know-how in large scale precision agriculture, team building, cannabis markets, strategic planning and project management.
Marcelo was invited to be a part of the founding team of PharmaCielo in early 2015. PharmaCielo is a Canadian based, publicly traded licensed producer which led the Cannabis legalization efforts in Colombia, earned historic first licenses and operates large scale production facilities in Antioquia. From 2015 to 2020, he lead the teams of virtually all key operational processes in the company-from licensing, through agricultural systems design and directed the extraction plant operation. As vice-president of agriculture, Marcelo designed and implemented one of the largest and most complete cannabis agribusiness in Latin America. The division grew from 2 to 250 employees in 4 years and today it counts with a premier breeding program, the most modern tissue-culture laboratory in Latin America exclusively dedicated to Cannabis, and a tropical agricultural production facility with more than 12 hectares of biologically managed cannabis production.
He has a deep understanding of the complexities of the cannabis world markets, manages a worldwide network of producers and buyers of cannabis based products and currently supports Calyx Group with his broad networks in Brazil and in the U.S.
Marcelo has earned his Master´s Degree in Horticulture from The University of Florida, and his Bachelor´s degree in agronomy and biology from Wilmington College in Ohio, USA. He resides in Medellin, Colombia and he speaks 2 languages in addition to his native Portuguese – English and Spanish.