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  • Company:  Agriculture and chemical behemoth, founded in 1901 by John Francis Queeny

  • Spun off its chemical businesses as Solutia in 1997.

  • Official Website:  http://www.monsanto.com/

  • Industry:  Agriculture

  • Ticker:  NYSE:MON

  • Corporate headquarters:  St. Louis, MO

  • Sales:  $5.4B (2004)

  • Employees:  12,600 (2004)


EXECUTIVES


 

Name

Occupation

Birth

Death

Known for

Frank V. AtLee III

Business

c. 1940

 

Chairman of Monsanto, 2000-03

Donald K. Bandler

Diplomat

1947

 

US Ambassador to Cyprus, 1999-2002

Hugh Grant

Business

c. 1958

 

CEO of Monsanto

Juanita H. Hinshaw

Business

c. 1945

 

CFO of Graybar Electric, 2000-05

Amin I. Khalifa

Business

c. 1954

 

CFO of Leap Wireless

Michael F. Mee

Business

c. 1944

 

CFO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, 1994-2001

Richard U. De Schutter

Business

?

 

CEO of DuPont Pharmaceuticals, 2000-01

Robert B. Shapiro

Business

4-Aug-1938

 

CEO of Monsanto, 1995-2000

Jack Watson

Government

?

 

Carter's Chief of Staff

 

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name

Occupation

Birth

Death

Known for

Frank V. AtLee III

Business

c. 1940

 

Chairman of Monsanto, 2000-03

John W. Bachmann

Business

16-Nov-1938

 

Partner, Edward Jones

Hugh Grant

Business

c. 1958

 

CEO of Monsanto

Arthur H. Harper

Business

3-Dec-1955

 

CEO, GE Equipment Services 2002-05

Gwendolyn S. King

Government

23-Sep-1940

 

Commissioner of Social Security, 1989-92

C. Steven McMillan

Business

c. 1946

 

CEO of Sara Lee, 2000-05

William U. Parfet

Business

c. 1947

 

MPI Research

George H. Poste

Biologist

c. 1944

 

Health Technology Networks

Robert J. Stevens

Business

c. 1954

 

CEO of Lockheed Martin

 

 

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name

Occupation

Birth

Death

Known for

Mickey Kantor

Government

7-Aug-1939

 

US Secretary of Commerce, 1996-97

William Ruckelshaus

Government

24-Jul-1932

 

Two-time EPA administrator

Robert B. Shapiro

Business

4-Aug-1938

 

CEO of Monsanto, 1995-2000

Stansfield Turner

Government

1-Dec-1923

 

CIA Director, 1977-81

 

 

NOTABLE EMPLOYEES

Name

Occupation

Birth

Death

Known for

William S. Knowles

Chemist

1-Jun-1917

 

Chiral catalysts

 

EMPLOYMENT

Name

Occupation

Birth

Death

Known for

John Doerr

Business

29-Jun-1951

 

Silicon Valley venture capitalist

Victoria F. Haynes

Business

c. 1947

 

CEO of RTI International

Ray R. Irani

Business

13-Jan-1935

 

CEO of Occidental Petroleum

Jose Octavio Reyes Lagunes

Business

13-Mar-1952

 

Coca-Cola Latin America

Clarence Thomas

Judge

23-Jun-1948

 

US Supreme Court Justice

 

EXTRANEOUS

Name

Occupation

Birth

Death

Known for

Ken Duberstein

Government

21-Apr-1944

 

Reagan's Chief of Staff, 1988-89

Michael Fumento

Author

4-Jan-1960

 

Conservative science writer

Stanley B. Greenberg

Business

10-May-1945

 

Pollster

Ted Wells

Attorney

28-Apr-1950

 

Washington lawyer