Todd Watson is the president and founder of T.R. Watson Company, LLC. T.R. Watson Company provides executive consulting services specializing in the areas of strategy formulation, business development, sales and marketing. He has more than 35 years’ experience in the domestic and international food and commodity ingredients markets. Watson’s career began at Cargill where he held various sales, marketing and general management positions. After Cargill, Watson joined Associated British Foods and held senior sales and marketing positions with wholly owned subsidiaries ACH Food and Nutrition and PGP International. He became chief executive officer of Provesta Flavor Ingredients and then president and CEO of ABF’s Protient dairy ingredients company. Watson later became president of Solbar Industries subsidiary Solbar USA, Inc. and shortly thereafter came to CHS when the company acquired Solbar Industries. At CHS he was Processing and Food Ingredients director responsible for leading the global sales, marketing, research and business development teams.