Bunge Ltd., White Plains, N.Y., said on Dec. 5 that J. Erik Fyrwald, 59, was appointed to its board of directors, effective immediately. He is currently the CEO of Syngenta, a global agriculture company, a position he has held since 2016. He is also an executive director on the Syngenta board of directors and chairman of the not-for-profit Syngenta Foundation.
Prior to joining Syngenta, Fyrwald served since 2012 as president and CEO of Univar, a distributor of chemicals and related services. He also previously served as president of Ecolab, a provider of cleaning, sanitation, water treatment, and oil and gas products and services, and as chairman, president, and CEO of Nalco, a water treatment and oil and gas products and services company. He was also group vice president of the Agriculture and Nutrition Division of DuPont from 2003-2008.
Fyrwald also serves on the boards of Eli Lilly and Co., CropLife International, and the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce.
He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware, and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.