CF Industries Holdings Inc. has announced the following appointments. Alexis Maxwell has been promoted to the role of ammonium nitrate/urea liquor product manager, reporting to David Fritzsche, director, product management, urea/ammonium nitrate. Maxwell joined CF in 2013 and previously served as an agri-business analyst within corporate planning.
Brad Weaver has joined CF as senior account manager responsible for plant nutrient sales on the West Coast (Pacific Northwest, California, and Arizona), along with Montana and Wyoming. Prior to joining CF, Weaver was a specialty sales representative with J.R. Simplot Co.
Jeremy Filer has joined the company as account manager responsible for sales of CF’s products in Minnesota and North Dakota. He previously served as an account manager with CHS Inc.
Weaver and Filer will report to Dwayne Sharun, manager, sales (West).
Zach Kutch has been appointed senior account manager, industrial sales, reporting to David Hopkins, director, sales. Kutch is responsible for sales of CF products to industrial customers throughout the U.S. He previously served as fertilizer marketing manager – U.S. Northern division with Archer Daniels Midland.
Also reporting to Hopkins is Susan Karnuth, who has been appointed to the new role of customer support manager. She joins CF from W.W. Grainger, where she served as senior manager, sales support operations. Karnuth will be responsible for developing and implementing CF’s overall customer support strategy, plans and objectives.
In other CF news, the CF board of directors has elected Theresa Wagler as an independent director of the company. Wagler, 44, is CFO and executive vice president of Steel Dynamics Inc. Her election brings CF board membership to nine.
Prior to joining Steel Dynamics in 1998, she served as assistant corporate controller for Fort Wayne National Bank and as a certified public accountant with Ernst & Young LLP.
In 2009, Wagler was listed among Treasury & Risk magazine’s picks of corporate America’s outstanding financial executives under the age of 40, and in 2012, she was included in CFO Magazine’s inaugural listing of honorees for female CFOs in the Fortune 500.
She earned her B.S. in accounting and systems analysis from Taylor University.