Marion Ag Service Inc., a family-owned ag retail business in St. Paul, Ore., on Oct. 24 announced several new hires and team member appointments. The company hired John Wayland as Horticulture Business Development Lead to grow the company’s horticultural market, with an initial focus on Marion’s suite of controlled release fertilizers.
Marion also added Susan Bradley and Ashlee Spickler to its horticulture business team to support customer relationships, order logistics, and inventory management.
Marion hired Justin Horlacher as Wholesale Sales Representative to grow the company’s wholesale market segment, with an initial focus on Marion’s PurKote technology. Doug Grott has been added as Director of Sales to execute growth across all of Marion’s market segments, and Erin Galvean has been appointed as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer.
In addition, Jeff Freeman, who currently serves as Marion’s Director of Sales and Marketing, will transition to a new role as Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, where he will lead the company’s growth and business development strategies and oversee marketing mixes.
Marion said Wayland has decades of experience in the Pacific Northwest nursery and greenhouse markets, while Horlacher brings more than 20 years of experience networking with western US distributors on value added products. Additionally, Grott has over 20 years of experience in ag retail and business development in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Galvean is a CPA with more than 20 years of experience, the past 15 with A-dec/Austin Industries.