Effective July 17, the following changes were made to The Mosaic Co.’s North American sales organization:
- With a focus to improve customer responsiveness and to streamline the organization, the U.S. Mosaic sales team will be divided into two regions, east and west of the Mississippi.
- Gord McKenzie will manage the western region and report to Rick McLellan, vice president, sales, North America. The eastern region will report to Rick McLellan until the search has been completed for the role of eastern region sales manager.
- Mark Nordwald and David Specketer were named key accounts leaders for the western and eastern regions, respectively. These roles will be responsible for co-coordinating sales with major accounts.
- John Gladden was named account manager for Florida and Georgia.
Marc Wallis joined Rentech as the vice president of sales, operations, effective July 15. He will be responsible for all sales activities from Rentech’s East Dubuque, Ill., nitrogen plant, and will administer the distribution agreement of product from that plant to Agrium Inc. Rentech recently bought the former Royster-Clark plant from Agrium Inc. Wallis is formerly from Royster-Clark.
Agrium Inc.’s Kenai Nitrogen Operations recently announced the appointment of Chris Sonnichsen as plant manager. He has been the Kenai production manager for the past nine years. Sonnichsen announced Kenai’s leadership team, which consists of new members Bruce Jackman, technical services superintendent; Jeff Turkington, operations superintendent; Rick Main, maintenance superintendent; and John Averill, safety, security & emergency response supervisor; and continuing members Jim Senn, business support superintendent; and Don Zacharias, human resources superintendent.
Elroy Webster, 72, a retired director and chairman of CHS Inc., died July 18 in Mankato, Minn. A farmer, Webster had five decades of involvement in cooperatives. In 1998, he was instrumental in uniting the former Cenex Inc. and Harvest States Cooperatives to form today’s CHS Inc., the nation’s largest cooperative and a Fortune 200 company. Webster also helped lead the 1987 establishment of a landmark joint venture involving the agricultural supply businesses of Cenex and Land O’Lakes, Inc. Webster received numerous awards for his leadership.