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Joyce

Cacho

C-Level

Adinura Advisory Services, Inc.

Boston,

Massachusetts

2023 Cohort

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Industry

Manufacturing; Banking

Area of Expertise

Mergers & Acquisitions

Immediately Qualified to Serve

Finance

Previous Board Experience

Nonprofit, Private

Joyce Cacho is an experienced corporate board director who served as Global Chief Sustainability Officer of the global life science disruptor, Novus International. Her independent board director experience includes the $19B cooperative, Land O’Lakes, a F250 company where she served on the Operating, Audit, Nominating/Governance Committees. Joyce additionally served on Finance & Audit; Compliance & Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) committees of an OCC regulated bank that is a Certified B Corp with a national charter. Currently, Joyce serves as the board chair of a PE-backed, energy-bio industry technology innovator. Leveraging her executive leadership experience in corporate and investment banking, Joyce brings deep knowledge of P&L restructuring strategies, financial valuation in M&A, ESG in business strategy, and risk oversight.

Joyce Cacho is immediately qualified to serve on the following committees:
■ Finance – Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (CAMS); and, Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) New York – Professional Member, designation
■ Audit
■ Nominating and Governance
■ Executive
■ Technology
■ Enterprise Risk Management

As a supply-chain/B2B expert, with banking and chemical manufacturing experience, Joyce is ready to serve on Audit, Nominations/Governance, and Technology committees. She was invited to join the board of Fortune 215 company, Land O’Lakes, Inc. for her Enterprise Risk Management and Sustainability insights. Executive leadership experience in wholesale and investment banking, and M&A, shaped her service on the Sunrise Banks, N.A. board — an OCC regulated financial services institution, supporting growth of the Fintech industry in the US.
Since 2022, Joyce has served as the Board Chairperson, Sistema.bio — a US registered, cleantech company with manufacturing operations of biogas systems in Mexico and India, and sales and distribution across India, LatAm, and the African continent. Sistema’s business engages and empowers farmers in the Global South hemisphere in Energy Transition and expansion of the voluntary carbon market (VCM).
Manufacturing, Mining, Horticultural, supply-chain, or Finance companies — with US or EU/international headquarters, are good fits for Joyce’s board and executive experience.
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