Nancy Carolina Martinez Madrid

With extensive professional preparation in the business area with an MBA on International Human Resource at the NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY NTNU , Taipei, Taiwan. Professional Chocolatier, Cacao Taster and founder of Ibagari Chocolate. Family business that was born in 2015 and which is the First Cocoa Processor with 100% Honduran capital. Ibagari means "life" in Garífuna. Dedicated to the production of Bean to Bar products without preservatives or additives. Producing gourmet chocolate with cacao from La Másica, Atlántida. For the year 2017, I inaugurated "Ibagari Chocolate - La Casa del Cacao Hondureño" the first chocolate shop and store of cacao based products in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Together with Ibagari Chocolate, I have worked hard so that Honduran cacao is recognized locally and internationally. Promoting Honduras as the Cradle of Cocoa. Selected in 2021 as one of the 100 Powerful Women of Central America and the Caribbean by Forbes Central America Magazine. As a chocolatier, I have has also been honored at the International Chocolate Awards on the American continent with the Bronze Medal for my Ibagari Chocolate 70% Cacao Dark Chocolate bar with Honduran Coffee. Fervent promoter of female entrepreneurship through talks and conferences for young people; I was awarded the GIRL BOSS award, an initiative that recognizes star ventures run by visionary women. Top 5 finalists of the third edition of the Leads Women program of Incae Business School in San Jose, Costa Rica. With Ibagari Chocolate, I work with local producers, benefiting more than 40 families in the countryside. Buying their production at fair prices. In addition to generating employment in my cacao processing plant and chocolate shop in the city of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Central America .