Management Team

The Mejía family from Matagalpa, Nicaragua, under the direction of Carlos Javier Mejía, manages both ECG S.A. and ECG INC.  ECG Inc. employs a number of United States citizens to administer the regional office in Georgia.  Detailed descriptions are as follows:

Paul Morgan, Board of Directors (Esperanza Coffee Group S.A)

Paul Morgan is a native of north Georgia and attended the Georgia Institute of Technology where he received a Masters of Aerospace Engineering Degree. After working for most of the major defense companies, Mr. Morgan founded Engineering Technology, Inc., a defense oriented research and Development Company whose focus was the design, engineering, and test of special technologies for use by the counterterrorism, bomb disposal and military special operations communities. ETI was acquired by General Dynamics Inc. in 2004 and continues as General Dynamics Tactical Systems - Orlando Operations.

Mr. Morgan has been involved in various capacities with the "Elevation" efforts since their inception.

Mr. Morgan’s civic activities include: Every Kid Outreach, Eatonville, Fla. - Chairman, Board of Directors:  Presbyterian Church, Maitland, Fla. -  Elder, Clerk of Session, Chairman of Service Committee: Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, Orlando, Fla. - Board of Directors: Glenda G. Morgan Charitable Foundation, Altamonte Springs, Fla. - Founder, President:  Haiti Fund Inc., Raleigh, N.C. - Board of Directors: Social Enterprise Fund, Altamonte Springs, Fla., - Co-founder, Board of Directors:  Florida Fellowship Foundation, Orlando, Fla. - Board of Directors and lastly Georgia Institute of Technology, Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni.

Mr. Morgan makes frequent trips to both Haiti and Nicaragua where he is involved with charitable development projects in the areas of fish farming, reforestation, teaching farms, medical clinics and alcohol rehabilitation.

Paul and Glenda Morgan have been married more than 40 years. They have two sons and have lived in Altamonte Springs, Fla., since the early 70’s

George L. Mackay – Board of Directors

A native of Florida and an engineering graduate of the University of Florida, George linked a very successful business career to an abiding commitment of service to his fellow man. George's career started with corporate giant P&G, but he moved back to Florida to become Managing Partner of a family business, one of the largest citrus operations in Florida. He later became President of Unique Electronics, a manufacturer of wiring for military aircraft and missiles. He was a founder of Premiere Communications, a very successful public company specializing in long distance debit cards. He has been a Director of several private and public corporations. George continues to be active with business interests in farming and resort development.

George Mackay has been visibly involved in church, public and social service related activism in the Orlando area. Among his activities, George serves on the Board of Directors of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, the Haiti Fund, as Outreach Chairman for the Presbytery (PCUSA) of Central Florida, the President of a private charitable foundation, Mackay Foundation, and of Social Enterprise Fund, Altamonte Springs, Fla., - Co-founder, Board of Directors. Mr. Mackay has been involved for many years in social and environmental projects both Nicaragua and Haiti.

Mr. Paul Morgan, can be accessed on the above webpage, by entering the link under  “Leadership Team”.

http://www.elevationfinancialgroup.com/

You can find out about Mr. George Mackay and more on Mr. Morgan on the WebPages below.

http://www.socialenterprisefund.org/board_9.html

http://www.helpfornicaragua.org/

Greg Elam – Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Kevin Sanderson – Esperanza Coffee Group, Business Consultant

Carlos Javier Mejia is President of “Esperanza Coffee Group S.A.”

Nicaragua and “Esperanza Commodity Group Inc”, California, companies that focus on the production, milling, export and marketing of specialty coffee from Nicaragua. Esperanza Coffee markets its coffees mainly in the US. In the last four years, Esperanza Coffee has been expanding its market to the European and Japanese roasters.

Carlos Javier graduated from Biola University, where he received his bachelor in Biblical Studies, and later attended graduate school at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, also at Princeton Seminary, New Jersey, to finally complete his master degree in theology from The San Francisco Theological Seminary, in California.

When he returned to Nicaragua (1995), after living in Los Angeles for almost 16 years, Esperanza Coffee was in total bankruptcy, with obsolete infra-structure and machinery and with no access to finance. Today, Esperanza Coffee has become a roll model company of ethically traded coffees, helping thousands of small and medium size farmers to improve their income, helped develop their rural coffee communities, and has reached excellent international prestige for these accomplishments, and indeed for the specialty coffees it sells to roasters.

In Nicaragua, Carlos Javier has been a member of the Board of Director various organizations such as APEN, ACEN, AMCHAM, President of the Association of Coffee Exporters, and other organizations. He has been a chair of the board for Young Life Nicaragua (Vida Joven) for eleven years, an outreach ministry that works with at risk kids. As part of its commitment to Evangelism, ECG S.A created a musical band, denominated as “Esperanza Music”, which plays in multiple setting and mostly in the secular arena, including parks, prisons, private and public universities and schools and at stadiums.  Carlos Javier is also a co-founder of a Rehabilitation Center for Alcohol and drug treatment for six years, where free care is given to children, young and adult people of both sexes.

José Felix Padilla Mejia – Chief Financial Officer, Esperanza Coffee Group