CHS Inc., St. Paul, on Jan. 25 announced that it has named Brandon Smith as Executive Vice President and General Counsel. He will be a member of the CHS strategic leadership team and will report to CHS President and CEO Jay Debertin.
Smith will join CHS in late March 2021 and succeeds James Zappa, who has been EVP and General Counsel since 2015. Zappa will be assuming another leadership role in the company.
CHS said Smith brings more than 15 years of experience, most recently as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary at Tenneco Inc., a multinational industrial company based in Lake Forest, Ill. Previously, he was an attorney with Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago, Ill.
Smith earned a juris doctor degree from Cornell Law School, Ithaca, N.Y., and a bachelor’s degree from Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio.