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Monsanto

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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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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