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
Bruce P. Bickner	Business	c. 1943		DEKALB Genetics Corporation
Charles W. Burson	Attorney	c. 1944		Al Gore's Chief of Staff, 1999-2001
Terrell K. Crews	Business	c. 1955		CFO of Monsanto
Arnold W. Donald	Business	c. 1955		CEO of Merisant, 2000-03
Hugh Grant	Business	c. 1958		CEO of Monsanto
Juanita H. Hinshaw	Business	c. 1945		CFO of Graybar Electric, 2000-05
John C. Hunter III	Business	c. 1947		CEO of Solutia, 1999-2004
Amin I. Khalifa	Business	c. 1954		CFO of Leap Wireless
Michael F. Mee	Business	c. 1944		CFO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, 1994-2001
David B. Price, Jr.	Business	c. 1946		BF Goodrich Performance Materials
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		Twice 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
John B. Fenn	Chemist	15-Jun-1917	10-Dec-2010	Electrospray ionization
William S. Knowles	Chemist	1-Jun-1917	13-Jun-2012	Chiral catalysts

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John M. Berra	Business	c. 1948		EVP at Emerson Electric
Jeffrey E. Curtiss	Business	c. 1948		CFO of Service Corporation Int'l., 2000-06
Raymond Davis, Jr.	Scientist	14-Oct-1914	31-May-2006	Detected solar neutrinos
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
Alan D. Lourie	Judge	13-Jan-1935		US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
Thomas J. Mohs	Business	c. 1940		Founder, Placon Corporation
S. Jay Stewart	Business	1938		CEO of Morton International, 1994-99
Clarence Thomas	Judge	23-Jun-1948		US Supreme Court Justice
Larry D. Thompson	Attorney	15-Nov-1945		General Counsel of Pepsi

EXTRANEOUS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Howard Aiken	Physicist	8-Mar-1900	14-Mar-1973	Designer of early computers
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
Steven J. Milloy	Activist	?		JunkScience.com
Ted Wells	Attorney	28-Apr-1950		Washington lawyer

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