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Snack Food Association
president to lead NAMA
WASHINGTON — James A. McCarthy has been named president of the
North American Millers’ Association, effective in October. Mr. McCarthy comes to NAMA from the Snack
Food Association, where he was president for nearly 15 years.
NAMA chairman James M. Meyer,
who headed the search process, said
Mr. McCarthy will bring new energy
to the association.
“Jim’s leadership and association
management skills will be a valuable
asset to NAMA and the future of our
association,” Mr. Meyer said. “He
joins an experienced and dynamic
staff that will make for a very strong
team to address our issues today and
for the future.”
As president of the S.F.A., Mr. McCarthy has been the leading Washington representative responsible for
policy issues affecting the $42 billion
snack foods industry. There he created

“strategic responses to and successfully guiding company members through
nearly 20 years of state and federal issues such as childhood obesity, trade
restrictions, use of trans-fats, food

safety, food stamps, hunger, proposed
taxes on snack foods and a myriad of
other issues of critical importance to
the industry,” NAMA said.
Mr. McCarthy joined the S.F.A. in
1991 and was named president and
c.e.o. until earlier this year when the
titles were split between two individuals, Mr. McCarthy as president,
and Tom Dempsey as c.e.o.

ADM assigns leaders ‘to build
productivity and earnings power’
DECATUR, ILL. — Archer Daniels
Midland Co. recently made several
management appointments that Juan
Luciano, executive vice-president
and chief operating officer, said are
“consistent with our commitment to
improve returns.”
“We are assigning leaders to build
productivity and earnings power in
key areas of opportunity,” Mr. Luciano said.
Joseph Taets, senior vice-president and president of the Agricultural Services business unit, will take on
additional responsibility for strategy
and growth activity across ADM’s
business lines in Europe, Africa and
India. He will relocate to the company’s European headquarters in Rolle,
Switzerland.
“With the pending acquisition of
GrainCorp, and the recent growth of
our crop origination and processing
assets in Eastern Europe, embedding
senior leadership in the region will
assure we fully leverage the earnings
power of our growing network,” Mr.
Luciano said. “Joe is ideally suited
for this position, with his current
responsibilities for crop origination
and transportation activity in more
than 75 countries, combined with
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his previous experience managing
ADM’s European oilseeds operations.”
Mr. Taets most recently was
president of ADM’s grain
group, with responsibility
for the company’s U.S. and
export grain businesses,
grain-merchandising operations, destination-marketing
business, and ocean freight
and vessel operations.
Earlier, he was managing
director of the company’s European
Oilseeds operations. He joined ADM
in 1988.
He is a member of the boards of the
North American Export Grain Association, Golden Peanut Co., ADM
Grain River System Inc. and Kalama
Export, an ADM joint venture. He
also represents ADM on boards in
Argentina, the Dominican Republic,
Guatemala, Holland, Mexico, Panama and Switzerland.
Mr. Taets received a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University in
Ames, Iowa, and a master’s degree in
business administration from Drake
University in Des Moines, Iowa.
Brent Fenton has been named
president of ADM Animal Nutrition,

Before joining the S.F.A., Mr. McCarthy was director, federal government
affairs of the National Food Processors
Association, where he was involved
with activities surrounding passage of
the Nutrition Labeling and Education
Act of 1990. Earlier, he was a senior
associate at Alcalde and Fay, a lobbying firm based in Arlington, Va.
A graduate of Boston University
with a bachelor’s degree in political
science, Mr. McCarthy received a law
degree from the Columbus School of
Law, Catholic University of America
and a master’s of business administration degree from American University.
At NAMA, Mr. McCarthy succeeds
Mary Waters, who resigned from
NAMA earlier this year.
“I am looking forward to working
with the NAMA board and members
to chart a new course for the association’s future,” Mr. McCarthy said
(see related story on Page 14). “I have
worked with NAMA’s excellent staff
on a number of occasions, and I am
eager to join the team and learn more
about the industry.” MBN
based in Decatur. ADM Animal Nutrition will bring together ADM’s
specialty feed business, which supplies the livestock and aquaculture
industries with amino acid-based
feed ingredients — with ADM Alliance Nutrition, Inc., a whollyowned subsidiary of ADM and a
leading producer of livestock
feed ingredients.
“With Brent’s strong commercial orientation, and his
experience managing our European oilseeds business, he
is well suited to improve returns by developing highervalue, higher-margin product opportunities and delivering
synergies in the combined specialty
feed businesses,” Mr. Luciano said.
Mr. Fenton previously was president of European operations, where
he was responsible for setting strategy and coordinating growth activity across all ADM business lines in
the region as well as managing the
company’s European oilseeds business. He joined ADM in 1992.
He received a bachelor’s degree in
agriculture and agricultural economics from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Sask. He sits on
the board of ADM Hamburg AG and
FEDIOL, the federation representing
the European vegetable oil and protein meal industry in Europe. MBN
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