Viterra Inc. has announced the promotion of two executives. Ray Dean has been appointed senior vice president, general counsel/corporate secretary, and Colleen Vancha has been promoted to senior vice president investor relations and corporate affairs.
Dean joined Viterra in 2003 as vice president, general counsel/corporate secretary. Previously, he was a partner with Balfour Moss Barristers and Solicitors. He was also counsel for the BC Hydro and Power Authority.
Vancha joined the company in 1988 and established the investor relations division in 1996 when the company went public.
Egbert Veldman, vice president, Shell Sulphur Solutions, has been elected as the new chairman of The Sulphur Institute. Hermann Wittje, The Mosaic Co.’s director of sulphur, was elected as vice chair, becoming the first from the consuming side of the sulphur industry to serve as vice chair.