Popko Peter van der Molen



Popko Peter van der Molen is the founder of Sicirec. He was born on July, the 20th in 1944.

Flor y Fauna
Popko's involvement in the hardwood investment market started as an investor in Flor y Fauna's teak plantations. Inspired by the spectacular growth rates of the young trees and the examples of older teak trees in the neighbourhood, he was optimistic about the incredible financial projections (which, in the end, indeed proved to be incredible). This optimism, and the advertised ecological added value of the Flor y Fauna teak plantations because of the protected areas of native forest, caused him to start selling these investments to friends and family.

Sicirec
Popko founded Sicirec S.A. in 1991 to tend the needs of his clients who preferred to deal with an intermediary instead of directly with a plantation company.

Bosque Puerto Carrillo / PanAmerican Woods
From 1997 through 2001, Popko was Vice-president of (Ind.) Bosque Puerto Carrillo / PanAmerican Woods (PAW). He was the initiator of the rescue operations carried out through NIBO.

He helped to found NIBO (NederlandseInternationale Bosbouw-Onderneming), the holding with a controlling interest in PAW in 1998. Untill 1998, he was also ad interim-director there.

PanAmerican Woods, comprising around 2,500 hectares of teak trees, is now known as one of the few success stories in the market of teak plantation forestry projects.

Sicirec Group
Popko P. van der Molen founded Sicirec SA in 1991 and

Sicirec Group BV in Foundation date::2007, with its seat in Company seat::The Netherlands.

Sicirec S.A. is now a Costa Rican daughter company of Sicirec Group BV.