Vanguard makes Latin American appointments Ignacio Ugarte and Fanny Robles join grower-packer-marketers teams in Chile and Peru Fanny Robles Vanguard International has announced the appointment of Ignacio Ugarte in Chile and Fanny Robles in Peru. Ugarte is an agronomist who spent the last five years as Aozora New Zealand’s procurement manager for Chile and South America. He previously worked as a quality controller with Decofrut, as well as operations manager at Aconex USA and Sun Valley. Ugarte will be based in Vanguard’s office in Santiago. “We have been lucky to know of and follow along with Ignacio’s career trajectory for many years and we are excited to add his skill set to the Vanguard team to support our business growth particularly in the Chilean and South American markets,” said Juan Luis Obach, manager of Vanguard Chile.