James “Joc” O’Rourke, 51, executive vice president of operations and chief operating officer of The Mosaic Co., Plymouth, Minn., has joined The Toro Co.’s board of directors. O’Rourke joined Mosaic in 2009 and has held senior management positions in the mining industry in Canada, Australia, and Papua New Guinea, including with gold producers Barrick Gold Corp. and Placer Dome Inc. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mining and mineral engineering from the University of British Columbia, along with a master’s degree in business administration from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.
Toro, Bloomington, Minn., is a leading worldwide provider of turf and landscape maintenance equipment and irrigation solutions. Sales were nearly $1.9 billion in fiscal 2011.