Kelvin Feist will be joining Intrepid Potash Inc. as vice president of sales and marketing on Feb. 1, 2011. R.L. Moore, Intrepid’s senior vice president of marketing and sales, will be working with Feist to help transition responsibilities prior to Moore’s plan to go part-time later this year. Feist has spent the past 16 years with Agrium Inc., most recently as director of potash marketing for their U.S. operations. Feist’s other roles at Agrium included national accounts manager in Denver and Calgary; services manager for several departments in Agrium’s fertilizer plant in Redwater, Alberta (Lab, Load Out, Site Services, Material Management, Planning & Scheduling); and marketing coordinator for nitrogen sales, product logistics, and warehousing. Prior to Agrium, Feist spent six years with the Hoechst/InterAg organization in sales, marketing, and management.
As of Jan. 21, 2011, all of the existing directors and senior officers of Potash One resigned in accordance with the support agreement between Potash One and K+S Canada, as the latter recently acquired 81 percent of Potash One. (GM, Jan. 24, p. 13.) In their places, Alexa Hergenröther, head of corporate development of K+S AG; Luis Mendoza, vice president of K+S North America; Ernst Andres, managing director of K+S Kali Gmbh; and Guy Leblanc, CEO of Windsor Salt Inc., have been appointed to Potash One’s board of directors. Hergenröther will serve as Potash One’s new CEO, and Mendoza will serve as CFO.
Arianne Resources Inc., Saquenay, Que., has announced the appointment of Jim Cowley to the board of directors. He is a metallurgical engineer with an MBA in Finance. He has worked in various roles for Exxon, Climax Molybdenum (AMAX), Bond International Gold, and Rio Tinto. He is currently a full-time consultant and employee of Ocean Partners USA, and is based in Utah. The company also announced the granting of 800,000 options to its directors, including Cowley, priced at $0.37. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Canada Phosphate, Arianne owns and is developing the Lac à Paul phosphate-titanium deposit, which it says produces a superior grade apatite concentrate grading close to 40 percent P2O5.