Salome Abla-Bloomquiest


Ms. Abla-Bloomquist is a Director at Proterra and a member of the Farmland and Sustainable Agriculture teams, where she helps direct the firm’s agriculture investment activities in Latin America.

Prior to Proterra, Ms. Abla-Bloomquist worked with Cargill’s Internal Corporate Audit in various roles, most recently as an audit risk management team lead.  In this function, Ms. Abla-Bloomquist was responsible for overseeing risk-based audits of several risk management platforms such as Cargill’s Agriculture Supply Chain, Energy, Transportation, Metals, and its financial business units.  Prior to Corporate Audit, Ms. Abla-Bloomquist worked as an Operations Manager with LaCrosse Global Fund Services while it was still under the Cargill umbrella. She provided financial services to Black River Asset Management amongst other hedge funds.  

Ms. Abla-Bloomquist received a Bachelor of Arts of Business from Concordia University, in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a Certified Fraud Examiner, and is fluent in both English and Spanish.