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Agri-Food Companies Management Program

This Program is the leading program in Spain of training and entrepreneurship development for the Food Industry managers. It was implemented more than 30 years ago and almost 2,000 businesspeople and executives have taken part in this program.

It is a unique program in Spain since it gathers business managers from all activity areas of the Food Chain in order to improve their management skills, through the Case Study Method, and to exchange experiences and identify common areas of mutual interest and collaboration.

From San Telmo we work to offer maximum security to our students. We have adapted the format of our Program which, for the first time, will combine attendance sessions and online sessions. 

Our priority is the safety of the people involved in the program. Therefore, we will scrupulously follow the current recommendations of the health authorities.



The “DEA” Program will be developed during the 2020-2021 academic year in:

  • In Logroño with the collaboration of UNIR (In progress)
  • In Madrid. Postponed edition with a date to be defined (If you are interested in receiving more information, contact Coral Romero through the email account: cromero@santelmo.org)
  • In Seville, Andalusia. It combine attendance sessions and online sessions.

        
      

Additional information next edition

LENGTH March to October (weekly)
PLACE Seville
MODALITY Blended

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Why should you do the DEA Program with us?

GLOBAL VISION

Your global knowledge about the industry will improve and you will acquire better understanding of the environmental challenges to generate competitiveness in the Food Chain.

MANAGERIAL SKILLS

You will improve senior manager skills: analysis and diagnosis abilities, solution-making and alternative courses of action.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

You will exchange experiences and you will find business opportunities within the Food Chain by getting involved in a group of people with common interests.

PARTICIPANTS

Businesspeople, senior managers in in top-level positions of responsibility in Food Chain companies.

FACULTY

Our own faculty has a broad experience in Management and its business, managerial and teaching practice.

ALUMNI

There are more than 10,000 alumni from SMEs, large companies and institutions to take part in networking activities with.

Case Study Method

INTERACTIVE-DYNAMIC-PARTICIPATIVE

  • Real business case studies posing questions and showing the latest and interesting business situations today.
  • Extra technical notes and conferences-colloquiums given by our faculty and leading experts are provided to strengthen your personal learning experience.
  • The writers of the case studies will also help you to carry out further analysis on them.
  • The case studies you will work with in the DEA Program are constantly updated. They address real experiences from businesspeople and managers in leading Food Chain companies.

Syllabus

  • Managerial decision-making.
  • Operations Management.
  • People Management.
  • Quantitative Information for Management.
  • Financial Management.
  • Economic Environment.
  • Management and Commercial Strategy.
  • Corporate Governance of Agri-Food Companies.
  • New Digital Environment.
  • Competition within the Food Chain.
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Participants

The DEA Program addresses to businesspeople and senior executives with large professional experience in top positions in SMEs of the Food Chain.

  • Primary sector (agriculture, cattle industry, fishery).
  • Food processing.
  • Commercial distribution (retailer, wholesaler), catering industry and food service.
  • Activity sectors associated with the Food Chain (logistics, biotechnology, consulting services, agricultural and industrial supplies, banking and venture capital institutions, etc.).
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María del Mar del Águila

María del Mar del Águila

Manager KEOPSAGRO

“The culture of effort, the importance of teamwork, the intent permanent of not making difficult what It can be easy, they are values ​​that I acquired in my time at the DEA and San Telmo.”.

Esteban Gutiérrez

Esteban Gutiérrez

CEO of Fresh and Chain Supply, Covirán

“It is worth looking for that time that we always need to be able to enjoy of this program, because in addition to group of professionals and companies that we contacted, we could see the cases from different perspectives, but with a same end, make projects a success guaranteed."
Antonio Vázquez Romero

Antonio Vázquez Romero

President. IBERIA

"My response was strong when I first contacted San Telmo more than 20 years ago and I decided to send my executive team to join the DEA Program. I joined as well a few years later, first as a participant and as a lecturer later. I am fully convinced that San Telmo has successfully developed an unparalleled agri-food education project in any Business School in the world”.

Cristóbal Díaz

Cristóbal Díaz

Manager in Torremesa (Grupo Torrebreva)

“The DEA was for me an update of a vision global business very rich in diversity of points of sight. I would enjoy it again without a doubt”.

Beatriz Escudero Rubio

Beatriz Escudero Rubio

CEO. PHARMADUS BOTANICALS

“Joining the DEA Program was the best investment of time I have made. It is really stimulating to think about my company and improve the way I run it through a meticulous Program, quite thorough, and even funny! It gave me the opportunity of sharing approaches with great industry professionals and now they are great friends”.

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