The Mosaic Co. on May 17 announced two personnel changes to its commercial team. Tom Philbin assumes the new role of sales leader for the customer segments of Mosaic’s Global Feed Business, North American Ag and Industrial Products. Barb Kula assumes the new role of marketing leader, which includes the existing Marketing, Agronomy, and Customer Service teams. Both will report to Rick McLellan, Senior Vice President – Commercial.
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. has named Keith Martell of Saskatoon to the board of directors. It also announced the retirement from the board of Jack Vicq. Martell, 44, is executive chairman of First Nations Bank of Canada. He is also a director of the Public Sector Pension Investment Board of Canada and the North West Company Inc., as well as a trustee of the North West Company Fund, Primrose Lake Trust, and Flying Dust First Nations Treaty Land Entitlement Trust. Vicq, Professor Emeritus of Accounting at the University of Saskatchewan, served on PotashCorp’s board since the company’s initial public offering in 1989.
Ed Beaman, former chief executive officer of the Agribusiness Association of Iowa, who was instrumental in developing calcium nitrate as an anhydrous ammonia anti-meth additive, is returning to the state to become the executive director of Safeguard Iowa Partnership, an organization formed earlier this year to bring the public and private sectors together for disaster preparedness. Beaman has been living in Kyrgyzstan managing a project in that country, as well as in neighboring Tajikistan for the International Fertilizer Development Center. After spending the past two years living abroad, he moved back to his home state last month.