Poxtec Consulting · Coffee industry advisory
Resilient coffee supply chains.
Advisory across sourcing practices, farming systems, regenerative agriculture, supply chain, and impact investment — with results measured in soil health, yields, landed premiums, and resilient relationships.
Areas of practice
Value chains, from end to end.
Sourcing
Demand-driven sourcing — lots built around client and market demand — with direct-trade structures, transparent pricing, traceability, and buyer–producer matches anchored in verifiable data.
Regenerative agriculture
Transition programs that rebuild soil and biodiversity without stalling cash flow, circular bio-fertilization systems, agroforestry, cover cropping, composting, and water stewardship.
Production
Yield, quality, and cost-per-kilogram across farm and processing operations — from cherry intake to export-ready parchment.
Farming
Agronomy and farm-system design: variety selection, planting density, renovation cycles, harvest management, quality practices.
Supply chain
Post-harvest logistics, quality systems, and consolidation — compressing lead time from washing station to vessel.
Impact investment
Pipeline structuring and blended finance for agri-food systems — framing value chain constraints as priced risks with owners and instruments.
Who I work with
Collaborating across all stakeholders.
Producers
Transitioning to regenerative soil systems, on-farm bio-input production, and direct-export structures — helping grower groups preserve margins, differentiate in the cup, and export under their own names.
Traders
Supporting high-volume commercial players with resilient, contextual sourcing programs geared to client demands — coffee volume, quality, price, sustainability, resilience, and regulatory compliance, including EUDR.
Roasters
Professionalizing green coffee buying through structured decision frameworks, sourcing strategies, origin risk management, and contract design that leads to consistent quality and relationships.
Impact investors
Structuring regional investment pipelines and blended-finance facilities across agri-food value chains — turning systemic bottlenecks into bankable, risk-tiered opportunities.
Selected case studies
Highlighted work.
About
Gabriel Chait — Poxtec Consulting.
Founder & principal
Yale MEM · Oxford MBA · 15+ years across coffee, cacao, tea & tropical commodities
Gabriel Chait on LinkedIn“Coffee is a human endeavor — it brings together people from different languages, cultures, and views to get one cup right. The space in between is rich with opportunity: for new ideas, for collaboration, and for building an ever more resilient exchange.”
The work I’m drawn to lives in the seams between things: between origin and market, producers and brands, commercial discipline and long-term relationships, and standards bodies and the farmers who have to make those standards real.
I view supply chains less as logistics puzzles than as systems of people, each operating from a distinct reality. The durable work happens when you can sit inside each of those realities, take it seriously on its own terms, and build the bridge that connects them.
Brands & Buyers
Origin sourcing redesign, opening new origin geographies, and scaling procurement functions through transition and growth. Past work includes managing the $20M direct-trade origin program at Stumptown Coffee Roasters and global specialty ingredient sourcing for Califia Farms across cacao, tea, coconut, and matcha.
Traders & Producer Groups
Market entry and trade development into the EU and US, long-term producer–buyer partnership structures, and standing up cross-border commercial teams — including opening the European specialty channel for Sucafina out of Colombia and Brazil.
Multilaterals & Platforms
Public-private programs bridging corporate sourcing commitments, origin reality, and regulatory frameworks. Recent engagements include Senior Program Manager with IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative (leading multi-million-euro programs co-funded with Starbucks, Nestlé, Lipton, ECOM, and Twinings), and designing the Specialty Coffee Association’s smallholder market access curriculum across Latin America.
The through-line across all three is connection, translation, and partnerships that hold over time.
Engagements
Advisory retainers, project consulting, field assessments, buyer–producer matchmaking, and impact investment structuring
Regions
Latin America, East Africa, and Southern Africa — with buyer networks and capital partners across Europe and North America
Working languages
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Approach
Field-first, data-anchored, and premiums tied to verified practice change.
Get in touch
Tell me what you're working on.
Whether you run a farm, an export operation, or a roasting program — or you're structuring an impact investment fund around an agricultural value chain — tell me what you're trying to move. Every inquiry is read and answered personally.
EUDR readiness support — traceability, geolocation, and due diligence for coffee entering the EU.
NDA-friendly for commercial negotiations.
Based in Lisbon, Portugal