Stockholders of CF Industries Holdings Inc. on May 13 elected three members of the board of directors and ratified selection of KPMG LLP as the company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2008. Re-elected to serve as directors for a three-year term were Wallace Creek, William Davisson, and Stephen Wilson. The three directors have all been members of the company’s board since its initial public offering in August of 2005. Creek served as controller of General Motors Corp. from 1992 to 2002, completing a 43-year career with the company. He is chairman of CF’s audit committee. Davisson has served as the Growmark Inc. CEO since 1998. Wilson is CF’s chairman, president, and CEO. KPMG served as the company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ended Dec. 31, 2007.
David Crank was recently named national accounts manager for the Green Professional Products Division of Bayer Environmental Science in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Crank will be responsible for several national accounts in the golf, lawn care, and formulator business segments. He joins national account manager Rich Burns in handling specific national accounts for Bayer Environmental Science. Previously, Crank was the lawn care and landscape market specialist in the Mid-Atlantic states. Prior to joining Bayer eight years ago, Crank worked as a marketing research consultant for Novartis and previously, for American Cyanamid.