Our Team
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
The building blocks of Fusion Farms are people with a passion for agriculture, sustainability, renewable energy, and, most importantly, Puerto Rico and its people. We are honored and proud to have each team member as a part of this project, whether they are on our advisory board, design team, or volunteer staff. Here are the people who have made Fusion Farms a reality.
Christopher Buchheit
Vice President, Farm Development
Gabriella Soto-Velez
Director of Farm Operations
Eliot Pratt
Director of Capital Accounts, Finance
To Be Announced
Chief Financial Officer
Gayan Dilanka Jayalath
Farm Manager
To Be Announced
Assistant Farm Manager
Noel Noriega
Outdoor Farm Supervisor
Daniel Lugo
Outdoor Farm Associate
Luis Garcia
University of Puerto Rico Student Intern
Fusion Farms’ Team of Consultants
Dr. Michael McGee
Fisheries Expert, Caribe Fisheries, Inc.
Dr. McGee has extensive experience and training in the areas of aquaculture, aquatic ecology, water chemistry, and fisheries science...
Murray Hallam
Practical Aquaponics Consultant
Murray Hallam is the director of Practical Aquaponics in Australia. He is by nature an innovator and in his research and development facility, he has perfected ...
Kate Wildrick
Systems and Processes innovator and designer
Kate Wildrick masterfully designs systems, processes, and environments to help Fusion Farms, and many other businesses and organizations...
Murat Kacira
Controlled Environment Agriculture specialist
Murat Kacira is director of the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center and a professor in the Biosystems Engineering Department...
Dr. Shane C. Burgess
Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Arizona
Fusion Farms has partnered with Dr. Shane Burgess and his team at the University of Arizona to bring a unique perspective...
Fusion Farms’ Legal & Accounting Team
Jelka Duchesne
Attorney at PR Corporate Services
Jelka Duchesne is our corporate attorney in San Juan. Jelka runs PR Corporate Services, which we first engaged to establish Fusion Farms back in 2016...
Fusion Farms’ Technical Team
Sushant Chawla
Server Administrator and Lead Technician
Sushant Chawla is Fusion Farms’ long-time server administrator and dedicated technician that manages all our servers, websites, databases, email server, security, and more. Sushant, who is located in Chandigarh, India, also manages Fusion Farms’ Amazon Web Services account, including all our firewalls and security provisions. He is an essential member of the team who operates quietly in the background.
Biswajit ``Jit`` Singh
Head of Website Development
Biswajit ``Jit`` Singh is our lead relationship manager for our website development team in Calcutta, India. Jit is actually physically located in a suburb of London, England but remotely manages a team of experts in website design, database design, app design, SEO marketing, social media marketing and all things web-related. Jit and Kendell Lang have been working together for many years and he is a reliable resource for Fusion Farms.
We’d love to hear from you!
For more information about who we are, what we do, and how you can join our movement towards a happier, healthier, and stronger Puerto Rico, please email your request to info@fusionfarms.ag or call 787-220-4505