{"id":3219,"date":"2024-07-22T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nufarm.com\/us\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2024-07-23T08:49:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T13:49:45","slug":"ken-barham-appointed-gm-north-america-brendan-deck-moves-to-advisory-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/us\/2024\/07\/22\/ken-barham-appointed-gm-north-america-brendan-deck-moves-to-advisory-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Deck to transition to corporate advisory role at Nufarm. Ken Barham appointed General Manager North America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commenting on the change, Nufarm CEO Greg Hunt said, \u201cBrendan Deck and Ken Barham epitomise Nufarm\u2019s relentless focus on delivering for our customers and suppliers. For the past ten years Brendan Deck has led the growth of our North American business, achieving many important milestones. Ken Barham joined Nufarm in 2017 and brings more than 20 years of commercial experience in the crop protection industry to the role.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After building and growing Nufarm in North America for the past 9\u00bd years, Brendan Deck will return to Australia in December 2024. In his new role, Brendan will continue to support Nufarm as a strategic advisor to the Group, utilising his considerable commercial and product experience.<\/p>\n

Under Brendan’s leadership, Nufarm has achieved important and significant milestones in North America. These achievements include the greenfield development of Nufarm\u2019s state of the art formulation facility in Greenville Mississippi, the modernisation and expansion of Nufarm\u2019s facilities in Chicago Heights and Alsip, and the development of important strategic relationships with customers and suppliers. Brendan\u2019s leadership drove growth in relevance and profitability for Nufarm with a relentless focus on customers and ease of doing business. Under Brendan\u2019s leadership, revenue in Nufarm North America increased from AUD$589M in FY2015 to AUD$1.26B in FY2023. In FY2023 the North American segment was the largest contributor to group revenue.<\/p>\n

Brendan will be succeeded as Regional General Manager, North America by Ken Barham, effective from 1 October 2024. Ken is currently the VP Sales for Nufarm\u2019s crop protection business in the US. Ken Barham joined Nufarm in August 2017 as the North American Customer Marketing Lead before moving into his current crop protection sales leadership role in 2021. With a comprehensive understanding of the crop protection sector, Ken has worked in the field for over 20 years, including senior roles in operations, sales and marketing, with experience spanning Alligare, Syngenta and Nufarm. Ken shares a passion for customers and for making Nufarm increasingly relevant and valuable to its channel partners. Ken\u2019s success at Nufarm includes the implementation of digital marketing technology, an evolutionary approach to customer account planning, and the oversight of key product launches into the North American market. Ken has been an instrumental part of a leadership team that has achieved significant milestones in processes, capabilities and growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cKen\u2019s strategic leadership will be an important extension of the substantial contributions of Brendan Deck who has grown and shaped our business in North America for the past 9\u00bd years,\u201d said Greg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brendan Deck and Ken Barham epitomise Nufarm\u2019s focus on delivering for its customers and suppliers, through quality solutions and ease of doing business. Over recent times Nufarm has invested in its portfolio and manufacturing facilities to provide foundational and innovative solutions. Investments in Chicago Heights, Alsip and Greenville are tangible examples of delivering on foundational products. At the same time, investments and partnerships with companies such as Enko, Moa and CSIRO are providing the opportunity to leverage disruptive technology that will deliver faster, cheaper and more targeted solutions for farmers.<\/p>\n

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Investor contact
\n<\/strong>Grant Saligari
\nGeneral Manager Investor Relations
\n+61 406 402 645 Grant.saligari@nufarm.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Media Contact<\/strong>
\nTracy Rich
\nVP Customer & Brand Marketing \u2013 North America
\n+1 919 608 7232  tracy.rich@nufarm.com<\/a><\/p>\n

About Nufarm <\/strong><\/p>\n

Nufarm is a global agricultural innovator providing crop protection and seed technology solutions to help our customers grow a better tomorrow. Established over 100 years ago, Nufarm is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:NUF) with its head office in Melbourne, Australia. Nufarm is the first company to develop and commercialise plant-based omega-3 and has developed and commercialized advanced bioenergy feedstock technology.<\/p>\n

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Commenting on the change, Nufarm CEO Greg Hunt said, \u201cBrendan Deck and Ken Barham epitomise Nufarm\u2019s relentless focus on delivering for our customers and suppliers. For the past ten years Brendan Deck has led the growth of our North American business, achieving many important milestones. Ken Barham joined Nufarm in 2017 and brings more than …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}