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Suci Suci was someone with the engineers how to improve or

Chengcheng especially to women. However, her I was introduced develop new technics for efficiency,
to when we were
until one day she realized she has got
prejudice was broken down after be- looking for a new sales in my compa- her next opportunity figured out. She
ing exposed to Italian coffee culture ny. She was very straightforward and went bold and started her own busi-
Chengcheng never thought she for 4 months at illy. She fell in love told me she wasn’t looking for oppor- ness, started to talk to brands over-
would be working in coffee: 7 years with it, and ended up study in a coffee tunity, but she was creating her own. seas and became their China distrib-
ago, when she was still a master’s master’s program initiated by illy, and I thought she was quite unique and utor. She likes to keep her day on a
student in food major, she had the since then stayed in coffee industry interesting. She got into coffee be- nine to five basis, she loves her job
opportunity to conduct the gradua- until today, she has all of the coffee cause of a job in retail came up at the and work with her clients, solving
tion project at the Research & Inno- knowledge she ever wanted and help- early stage of her career, she stayed problems for them, meanwhile she
vation Department of illy caffe in ing others who persuades the beauty in retail and sales for 8 years, she likes to enjoy her family time after
Trieste. She had her first cup of of coffee. She travels a lot to Yunnan realized that she was obsessed with work. Suci said: “I love to see new
espresso in life there, she was told and other coffee origins, a good part equipment mechanic, she enjoyed to machines; I love to make sales!”
when getting that cup of coffee, it was of her time goes on conference, meet- play with the machines and discuss
pulled by a skillful barista with a ings and producer training prepara-
couple of decades of experience. But tion. She said she enjoys having
as you would imagine, she did not like flexible in terms of working hour and
that coffee at all, she had a strong bias projects she like, travel to new places
against coffee at the time, and be- and meeting new people, and the Amber I first met ments. After she moved to her current
lieved that coffee does harm to health, sense of fulfillment she gets. with Amber company, she started doing manage-
in one of my ment, green coffee handling, stor-
business meetings in Seattle, she was age and distribution. Meanwhile she
very quiet first, only when it came also works as a product owner for
There is really no need to emphasize to her field, she started to talk and green coffee systems, helping to
improve processes and make tech-
I realized how sharp she was, every
a person’s gender if we truly be- word to the point. Three years later nology work better, “and us work
smarter”, she added. Amber likes
after that project we both participat-
lieve in gender equality. ed in, we kept in touch as friends, helping people and making things
she told me about her stories in
work better. In her role she is al-
coffee: her career in coffee started ways able to impact change and
in 2013 at a coffee importer in Seat- drive continuous improvement in
Tomoka I have work: stock list/cupping/samples/ tle, WA – Atlas Coffee. At Atlas what they do and how they do it.
Coffee, she managed logistics, in-
She said she always reminding her-
respond to customer inquiries/in-
worked
ventory and certification report- self that she has to be creative, an-
with troducing coffee to customers/fol-
ing, as well as systems improve- alytical and social all at once.
Tomoka for some time, Tomoka is a low up with some after sales service,
very typical Japanese girl, very sweet which I heard from the others she is
and polite, you will always see smile very good at. However, when I asked
on her face when you have eye con- her about the daily routine, she said
tact with her. She likes to check out she never had thought this was a
the new restaurants and coffee shops girl’s job as it involves some enter- Teresa These amaz- ments of the supply chain, retail,
in town, you will always find the tainment activities like dinner, ing ladies’ operation, sales, startup projects and
right place to go if you ask her for drinking with customers. Her favor- experience business development. I started in
recommendation, she is like a walk- ite part of the job is cupping, she of getting into coffee, reminded me of coffee trading in 2013 with Volcafe,
ing ‘Trip Advisor’. She joined the said she can just spend her day in my story in coffee, some differences, from sales to trader and now taking care
green trading company as a tempo- the lab, sort out the green samples, some similar, one thing in common: of the Great China coffee business and
rary worker as she was just looking roasting samples, and cupping all once you are in, it seems you are with other relevant work, I love what I do,
for a temporary job, she didn’t plan day long. That’s where she found the coffee, for the rest of your career. From and I’m passionate about this industry.
to work for a long time, ended up most joy in coffee, all the challeng- my student days, in 2007 I have en- What can I say, I would the caffeine
working in the company for about ing moments in the origin trips and tered the coffee industry, and I’ve works on us coffee people!
ten years now. Her typical day at at work became worthy. been participating in different seg-

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