The Corporate Architecture
The AFG Food System — the institutional architecture that executes the methodology.
The AFG food system is a BVI holding company with two institutional operating entities: Sylvan Foods, the Article 6(c) Special Free Zone manufacturer in Santo Domingo, and Rossi Foods Inc., the U.S. legal and operating presence. One firewalled proprietary consumer brand — Doña Rossi — sits downstream of the institutional platform and is acknowledged in its own place.
The Map
One holding company. Two institutional entities. One firewalled brand.
Holding Company · BVI
Americas Food Gateway
The institutional parent. Carries the platform thesis, operates the Gateway Method™, holds counterparty relationships at the institutional level, and serves as the single institutional voice to the buyer organizations.
Downstream · Firewalled
Doña Rossi
A proprietary consumer brand, launching Q4 2026. Sits downstream of the institutional platform. Firewalled from all institutional B2B counterparty engagement so that it neither competes with the buyer's private label, nor dilutes the institutional voice of Americas Food Gateway.
Operating Entity · Dominican Republic
Sylvan Foods
An Americas Food Gateway company
Sylvan Foods is the institutional manufacturer. It operates inside the Dominican Article 6(c) Special Free Zone framework — the jurisdiction the country reserves for its most credentialed export-manufacturing operators. Sylvan is the platform's manufacturing engine: where the certifications live, where the capacity runs, where the enterprise buyer's SKU is actually produced.
- — Article 6(c) Special Free Zone operator, Santo Domingo.
- — Full certification stack: FSSC 22000 · BRCGS AA · SQF · SMETA · FSMA 204 · organic where applicable.
- — Dedicated production lines, customer-calibrated throughput, documented changeover discipline.
- — Institutional cold chain from Caucedo to U.S. DC, with dual-port redundancy (Caucedo · HIT).
Operating Entity · United States
Rossi Foods Inc.
Rossi Foods Inc. is the U.S. legal and operating presence — the counterparty-facing institutional entity for every U.S. commercial contract. Registered in the United States; operating in the institutional U.S. food system; carrying the insurance stack, the compliance stack, and the legal posture the Tier-1 enterprise buyer requires on the U.S. side of the transaction.
U.S. counterparty
Delaware registration, U.S. banking, U.S. legal counsel of record, and the full U.S. commercial-compliance posture.
FSVP coverage
Foreign Supplier Verification Program filings, customs broker continuity, and documented import-lane reliability.
Contractual voice
Every enterprise buyer contract is written in the U.S. legal register, executed by a U.S. entity, enforceable under U.S. law.
Firewall Acknowledgment
Doña Rossi — the proprietary consumer brand.
Doña Rossi is the platform's proprietary consumer brand, launching Q4 2026. It is firewalled from the institutional platform. Americas Food Gateway engages institutional B2B counterparties exclusively. The consumer brand does not compete with the enterprise buyer's private label, does not appear in B2B contracting materials, and is acknowledged here only because institutional disclosure requires it.
The Operators
An institutional bench, assembled.
Juan Tavares
Executive Chairman · Americas Food Gateway
Remer Lane
President · Sylvan Foods
Ricardo Rosa
Chief Operating Officer
Atilio Vargas
Chief Quality & Compliance Officer
Ariel Ferreyra
Chief Commercial Officer
Jesus Estrella
VP, Manufacturing Operations
The Expansion Map
The Dominican Republic is AFG's first operating node. Not its only one.
AFG is a Western Hemisphere institutional-grade food supply platform. The Dominican Republic is today's primary operating node — the institutional proof-of-concept for how AFG builds a node anywhere. Future nodes will be multi-site and multi-national, added wherever the compliance stack, the producer base, and the logistics corridor align.
The candidate jurisdictions below are illustrative reference geographies — named for pattern recognition, not as committed commercial nodes.
Costa Rica
Tier-1 cold-chain export heritage; U.S. trade-aligned.
Panama
Canal logistics spine; free-zone institutional depth.
Colombia
Premium agricultural origin; hemispheric compliance architecture.
Peru
Certified-organic producer base at hemispheric scale.
Chile
Counter-seasonal premium production; institutional export register.
Mexico (selective)
Non-compromised agricultural corridors aligned with USMCA compliance.
The Institutional Signature
One holding company in the BVI. One Article 6(c) manufacturer in Santo Domingo. One U.S. counterparty of record. The architecture the enterprise buyer needed before they knew to ask for it.