Brandon Risner has been named Compass Minerals’ Vice President, Operations, Ogden and C&I, effective Aug. 16, 2024. Risner will be responsible for leading Ogden’s operations and strategy and will also maintain his leadership of the company’s North American Consumer and Industrial (C&I) processing and packaging plants.
Risner has served for almost four years as Vice President, Manufacturing, at Compass, where he helped increase workforce engagement, create efficiencies, and improve operational performance across the processing and packaging plants. Compass said he has nearly 25 years of mining operations and material processing experience, with a BS in mine engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and a Master of Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.