Please welcome 2025 Cotton Council International President Carlo Bocardo!
Carlo Bocardo takes over the presidency from U.S. cotton grower Lee Cromley, who will serve as CCI chairman.
Bocardo is the executive vice president of sales for Calcot, Ltd., a cotton marketing cooperative, and has traveled extensively in the U.S. and around the world promoting U.S. cotton. He joined the cotton industry in 2000, when Calcot hired him as an assistant export sales manager. Bocardo received a master’s degree in agribusiness from Texas A&M University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City.
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