Dow AgroSciences Canada Inc.
Dow AgroSciences Canada Inc. announces that President and CEO Rick Smith plans to retire from the company in the fourth quarter of 2005. Smith's innovative and much-respected service spans three decades. He began in 1973 with his first position as a pharmaceutical rep with Eli Lilly and Company. He later served as vice president and general manager for Dow Elanco Canada, and in 1997 was named president and CEO of Dow AgroSciences Canada. Kay Kuenker, who joined The Dow Chemical Company's Central Research Organization in 1986 and currently serves as global business leader, has been named successor to Smith. Her most recent assignments have focused on Plant Genetics and Biotechnology in the corn and sorghum sorghum, tall, coarse annual (Sorghum vulgare) of the family Gramineae (grass family), somewhat similar in appearance to corn (but having the grain in a panicle rather than an ear) and used for much the same purposes. Probably indigenous to Africa, it is one of the longest-cultivated plants of warm regions there and also in Asia—especially in India and China. market. She will relocate to Calgary in August.
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