Agrium Inc. welcomes Mike Frank as president of Agrium Retail, effective Sept. 18. Frank comes to Agrium from Monsanto where he has held a wide variety of senior positions with the company.
As president of Agrium Retail, Frank will be responsible for all of Agrium’s global retail operations, including Crop Production Services in North America, Landmark in Australia and South American retail operations. In this role, Frank will implement the company’s vision of profitably growing the retail business, ensuring operational excellence and increasing organizational capability.
“We are very excited to welcome Mike to Agrium,” says Chuck Magro, Agrium president and CEO. “With almost three decades of experience in agriculture, he is very well known and highly respected across the crop input industry.
“Mike has a clear mandate to grow our retail business. He is an exceptional people leader and I look forward to working with him to continue to develop and grow our talent and business to ensure we remain the leading provider of crop inputs and solutions for our global farm customers.”
Most recently, Frank was the lead Monsanto senior executive planning the pending integration with Bayer. Immediately prior to that, he was the senior vice president and chief commercial officer of Monsanto’s global business. He also held vice president roles across a number of divisions within Monsanto, including Global Manufacturing, Supply Chain Operations, Crop Protection Business and Global Product Strategy. Frank also held the position of vice president of International Commercial operations and was president of Monsanto China. During his career, he has acquired extensive experience and understanding related to supply chain and geographic distribution channels, digital commerce strategies, cultural and digital transformation and effective implementation of acquisitions and mergers.
Frank has served on the boards of CropLife International and CropLife America, as well as World Trade Center St. Louis. He holds an agricultural engineering degree from the University of Saskatchewan and an MBA from Northwestern University.
