Phosphate Holdings Inc. (PHI), which owns Mississippi Phosphates Corp., has announced that Neil Subin and Nicholas Walsh, CFA, were added to the company’s board of directors effective Nov. 22, 2010.
Subin is president of Trendex Capital Management Corp., which is a significant beneficial owner of PHI’s common stock. He serves as a member of the board of directors and a member of the audit committee of Hancock Fabrics Inc. Subin is also a director and member of the audit and compensation committees of Primus Telecommunications Group Inc., and a director and member of the audit committee of Federal Mogul Corp.
Walsh is a principal and co-founder of Wilfrid Aubrey LLC. He is the portfolio manager and is responsible for all securities investments. Prior to this, he was a vice president at J. & W. Seligman & Co., a New York-based asset management firm, where he served as a fixed income portfolio manager. He served on various boards of directors and has over 20 years of investment management experience.
“As the company continues to address important operational and strategic issues, the board felt that it would benefit from expanding to include more of our larger shareholders,” said PHI CEO Robert Jones. “Both Mr. Subin and Mr. Walsh bring management experience and strategic insight to our board which we believe will prove valuable as we move Phosphate Holdings forward.”
Dale Tvrdy has joined The Mosaic Co. as a new account manager covering the Southeast U.S. He lives in Tampa and comes to Mosaic from Becker Underwood, where he served as an account manager for the Southeast for the past nine years. In addition, he also worked for Syngenta Seeds for five years. Tvrdy will be managing Mosaic accounts in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and the Northeast, and will report to Dave Finken.