Harry Deans will be joining Agrium Inc. as its new senior vice president and president of Wholesale, effective Aug. 24. At that time, Ron Wilkinson will move into the position of senior vice president and advisor to the CEO.
Deans joins Agrium with over two decades of experience in production, sales and marketing, and business management of a broad range of petrochemical and commodity products, including ethanol, ammonia, salt, benzene, phenol, and olefins and polymers. He also has experience overseeing large projects.
Deans has held a number of CEO positions at Ineos and was most recently the CEO of Ineos Nitriles, a global business based in Switzerland, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the $54 billion Ineos Corp. He has also worked for BP Chemicals. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from Strathclyde University in Scotland.