Our Team
Heidi Alasuvanto
Heidi Alasuvanto is a Finnish-American entrepreneur, homeschool mother, dancer, and yoga teacher based in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA. She is the founder of Rose Import LLC, an experiential education platform that combines global trade, biology, and conscious sourcing to help students and families understand how products move from farms to international markets.
Heidi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Wellbeing Management and is an E-RYT 500 certified yoga teacher. She is also an Alexandra Farms Garden Rose Design Certified professional, with specialized training in the handling, evaluation, and design of premium Colombian garden roses.
For more than a decade, Heidi has studied pedagogy and developed a homeschool approach grounded in experiential learning. Her educational philosophy emphasizes observation, pattern recognition, systems thinking, and direct engagement with the real world.
Through Rose Import LAB™, Heidi brings together her backgrounds in business, movement, education, and wellness to create a new model of learning where students follow roses, coffee, and other agricultural products from the Colombian Andes to the global marketplace.
All business inquiries: heidi@roseimport.com
Carlos Robles
Carlos is a Business Administrator from Santa Marta, Colombia, with a background in education and communication. He works as an English teacher, guiding students from middle to high school through practical, engaging learning experiences. At Rose Import LLC, he brings cultural insight and on-the-ground perspective to help bridge global trade and real-world learning.
Our Nordic Field Agent brings a rare on-the-ground perspective to Rose Import LAB™.
Over the years, he has traveled extensively throughout Colombia, navigating mountain roads, visiting remote towns, meeting local entrepreneurs, and exploring business opportunities across diverse regions of the country. These experiences have given him a practical understanding of Colombian geography, culture, and the relationship-based nature of business.
His work demonstrates that international trade is not learned only through textbooks or spreadsheets. It is built through trust, observation, adaptability, and firsthand experience in the field.
In Rose Import LAB™, he shares real-world insights into negotiation, cross-cultural communication, and how opportunities are identified and developed across borders. His perspective helps students understand what it takes to build meaningful partnerships in unfamiliar environments.
For security and privacy reasons, we keep his identity confidential. In international business, discretion is often an important part of protecting relationships, preserving personal privacy, and allowing work to proceed without unnecessary attention.
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