Working directly with the company's core global customers to build mutually beneficial strategic relationships and define innovative, collaborative new ways to enable, enhance and sustain the success of the companies currently shaping the opportunity for the agricultural industry in the next decade and beyond.

Led the U.S. integration for Bayer's $60-billion-plus acquisition of Monsanto, representing the largest deal in the history of the agricultural industry. As the single largest commercial market for the potential combined company, the integration of U.S. operations focused on ensuring the success of the ongoing business in the near term, while enabling the strategic vision and transformational opportunity of the vision of the combined company. • Led a team of more than 25 functional work streams and project management specialists that defined and was responsible for delivery of priority integration initiatives for planning, post-merger implementation and realization of long-term strategic vision.• Served as central coordination point, providing connection to ensure alignment, collaboration and clear accountability with U.S. senior management, global integration planning teams and integration-related stakeholders.

Dual-track responsibility that included guiding strategic direction for a Fortune 200 company and operational delivery on multiple business units. Developed strategies that deliver innovative businesses opportunities, sustained industry leadership, and breakthrough growth platforms through organic growth, strategic partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A).• Member of executive-appointed task force to provide strategic counsel on communications, corporate positioning and coordination on M&A combination and consolidation, including pending Bayer transaction. • Served as business lead representing the company in external negotiations on strategic partnerships, M&A, and dispute and settlement resolution.• Led core strategic initiatives to establish business models, long-range planning and new-platform development to address complex issues and drive sustainable growth.• General manager and business lead for global operations of two platform business units: Monsanto’s global consumer-branded lawn-and-garden business and commercial wheat row-crop business. With global operations and organization, the combined businesses generate more than $400 million in total sales with strong operating margin profile.

Led the development and implementation of investor relations strategies for a major global agricultural company, with $50 billion-plus in market capitalization. Strategic direction emphasized pro-active outreach, education and communication with investors and analysts that resulted in fair valuation of the company and in high credibility for the senior management team. During tenure, managed communication through global mergers-and-acquisition activity, organization-wide restructuring, external re-positioning, and high-growth environment. Consistently proven as a sought-after leader across the company in organizational positioning, message development and branding.• Crafted and delivered strategy that guided the company through an external repositioning and implementation of renewed growth strategy, resulting in a tripling of the company’s market capitalization over the cumulative period of tenure as Investor Relations Lead. • Provided direct strategic counsel to the company’s senior-management team, working to set strategic direction against the context of the company’s external investor base.• Led cross-functional initiatives on strategic and ad-hoc issues that direct enterprise-wide, integrated positioning across company constituencies.

• Led strategic long-range planning process for core business units, providing Monsanto’s executive management and Board of Directors with scenario-planning and recommendations to support the company’s financial budgeting and growth planning.• Led acquisition team that successfully negotiated transaction for $40-million-dollar acquisition of an outside company that became the foundation of a core growth area for the company during the next decade.

• Led company’s financial communications function, developing and implementing communications programs to support the corporate direction of the company.• Directed the production and strategy for the company’s publication strategy, including the company’s annual report• Managed media relationships and served as company spokesperson, working directly with national, regional, local and trade media including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, PBS Frontline and NOVA and CBS 60 Minutes. • Provided direct communications support to CEO and senior management staff, including media-relationship management, financial communications and speechwriting, with speeches published in Vital Speeches of the Day, Executive Speeches and The Executive Speaker.

• Formed and co-led company-wide, cross-functional issues and crisis management task force formed to address scientific, regulatory, media and litigation issues affecting the company’s freedom to operate. • Led Public Affairs team in implementing prospective issue management program; Identified and analyzed potential issues, developing anticipatory proactive programs to address issues before they ignite.

• Member of an agency-wide strategic resource team that provided specialized technical and issue analysis for product development and media-relations campaigns for key clients.