People: Agrium Inc (AGU)

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Victor Zaleschuk

 69 2012 Independent Chairman of the Board

Michael Wilson

 61 2003 President, Chief Executive Officer, Director

Stephen Dyer

 2011 Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President

Charles Magro

 2011 Executive Vice President - Corporate Development, Chief Risk Officer

Leslie O'Donoghue

 50 2012 Executive Vice President - Corporate Development & Strategy, Chief Risk Officer

James Grossett

 2006 Senior Vice President - Human Resources

Richard Gearheard

 Senior Vice President, President - Retail Business Unit

Eric Miller

 2011 Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer

Andrew Mittag

 2009 Senior Vice President, President - Agrium Advanced Technologies Business Unit

Ron Wilkinson

 2006 Senior Vice President, President - Wholesale Business Unit

Fredrick Thun

 2011 Vice President, Corporate Controller

Angela Lekatsas

 2011 Vice President, Treasurer

Susan Jones

 2012 Vice President - Marketing & Distribution

Patrick Freeman

 2011 Vice President - Corporate Development & Strategy

Kevin Helash

 2011 Vice President - Retail, Canada/Pacific North West Region

Thomas Warner

 2011 Vice President - Retail Distribution; President of Crop Production Services, Inc.

Gary Daniel

 Corporate Secretary, Senior Legal Counsel

David Everitt

 60 2013 Independent Director

Russ Girling

 50 2006 Independent Director

Susan Henry

 66 2001 Independent Director

Russell Horner

 63 2004 Independent Director

David Lesar

 59 2010 Independent Director

John Lowe

 54 2010 Independent Director

A. Anne McLellan

 62 2006 Independent Director

Derek Pannell

 66 2008 Independent Director

Frank Proto

 70 2012 Independent Director

Mayo Schmidt

 55 2013 Independent Director

Melanie Thomson

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Biographies

Name Description

Victor Zaleschuk

 Mr. Victor J. Zaleschuk B.Comm., CA, serves as an Independent Chairman of the Board of Agrium Inc. Mr. Zaleschuk is the Board Chair of Cameco Corporation. Mr. Zaleschuk is also a former President and Chief Executive Officer of Nexen Inc. Prior to becoming President of Nexen Inc., Mr. Zaleschuk was a Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Nexen Inc. Before joining Nexen Inc., Mr. Zaleschuk was a senior financial executive in the energy sector.

Michael Wilson

 Mr. Michael M. Wilson B.Sc. (Chem), serves as President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Agrium Inc. Mr. Wilson joined the Corporation in 2000 and was appointed Chief Executive Officer on October 1, 2003. Mr. Wilson is a director of Celestica Inc. (a technology company), a director (and former Board Chair) of Canpotex Limited (a potash export company), a director (and former Board Chair) of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI), a director of The Fertilizer Institute (TFI), a director of the International Fertilizer Association (IFA), a director of Alberta Economic Development Authority (AEDA), and a director of the Calgary Prostate Cancer Centre. Mr. Wilson is also a former director of Air Canada. Prior to joining the Corporation, between 1994 and 2000, Mr. Wilson was a senior executive at Methanex Corporation (a chemical company) where he was Executive Vice President, and President, Methanol, from 1999 to 2000. From 1976 to 1994 Mr. Wilson was an executive with Dow Chemical Company Ltd. (a chemical company). Mr. Wilson is a Chemical Engineer.

Stephen Dyer

 Mr. Stephen G. Dyer serves as Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Agrium Inc. He has been Vice President, Retail West Region, Agrium; Manager, Western Retail Crop Production Services, Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Agrium) and, prior thereto, Vice President, Manufacturing, Agrium.

Charles Magro

 Mr. Charles V. Magro serves as Executive Vice President - Corporate Development, Chief Risk Officer of Agrium Inc. He has been Vice President & Chief Risk Officer and, prior thereto, Vice President, Manufacturing, Agrium and, prior thereto, Vice President, Feedstocks, Nova Chemicals Corporation; Vice President, Investor Relations, Nova Chemicals Corporation; Director of Polyethylene, Nova Chemicals Corporation.

Leslie O'Donoghue

 Ms. Leslie A. O'Donoghue serves as Executive Vice President - Corporate Development & Strategy, Chief Risk Officer of Agrium Inc. She has been employed at the Company since 1999 and currently holds the position of Chief Legal Officer & Senior Vice President - Business Development. Ms. O’Donoghue’s responsibilities include corporate strategy and business development, mergers and acquisitions, legal affairs, corporate governance, internal audit, and environmental, health, safety & security. Prior to joining Agrium, Ms. O’Donoghue was a partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. After earning her Economics degree from the University of Calgary in 1984, Ms. O’Donoghue completed her LL.B. at Queen’s University in 1988, and was admitted to the Alberta Bar in 1989.

James Grossett

 Mr. James M. Grossett serves as Senior Vice President - Human Resources of Agrium Inc. He joined Agrium Inc in 2002. He brings over 25 years experience as a human resource executive both in North America and internationally. Previously, he was Senior Vice President, Human Resources for both Molson Inc. and Coca-Cola Beverages, Ltd.

Richard Gearheard

 Mr. Richard L. Gearheard, CPA, serves as Senior Vice President, President - Retail Business Unit of Agrium Inc. Mr. Gearheard has served as Senior Vice President of Agrium and President of the Retail Business Unit since August 1996. He has also worked in various capacities with other Agrium Retail companies such as Western Farm Service as Vice President, Northwest Region and Crop Production Services as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In 1983, he participated in the formation of Crop Production Services through a leveraged buyout. During his career, he has been involved with company-changing acquisitions including PureGro, Western Farm Service and Royster-Clark.

Eric Miller

 Mr. Eric B. Miller serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer of Agrium Inc. He has been Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Nexen Inc.; Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Nexen Inc.; Division Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel, Nexen Inc.

Andrew Mittag

 Mr. Andrew K. Mittag serves as Senior Vice President, President - Agrium Advanced Technologies Business Unit of Agrium Inc. He has been Senior Vice President, Corporate Development & Strategy, Agrium.

Ron Wilkinson

 Mr. Ron A. Wilkinson serves as Senior Vice President, President - Wholesale Business Unit of Agrium Inc. He joined Agrium Inc in 1996 and has since held positions of increasing responsibility. Ron A.Wilkinson is Senior Vice President, Agrium and President of the Wholesale Business Unit. Mr. Wilkinson joined Agrium in 1996 through the acquisition of Viridian Inc. and held positions with the organization including Vice President Operations and Technology, Director, Technical Services, General Manager of South American Operations, General Manager of Operations and Projects, Asia Pacific, and Manager of Transportation. Mr.Wilkinson has also worked for Sherritt Inc., Imperial Oil, Exxon Chemical Pakistan Limited and Esso Chemical Canada. Mr. Wilkinson has over thirty years engineering, operations and business management experience within the petrochemical industry. A graduate of the University of Alberta with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, Mr. Wilkinson also completed “The Executive Program” at the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business in 1993. He is a member of The Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA).

Fredrick Thun

 Mr. Fredrick R. Thun serves as Vice President, Corporate Controller of Agrium Inc. He has been Senior Director, Corporate Planning & Analysis, Agrium.

Angela Lekatsas

 Ms. Angela S. Lekatsas serves as Vice President and Treasurer of Agrium Inc. She has been Vice President, Corporate Controller & Chief Risk Officer and, prior thereto, Controller; Manager Corporate Reporting, Agrium.

Susan Jones

 Ms. Susan C. Jones serves as Vice President - Marketing & Distribution of Agrium Inc., since July 1, 2012. She also served as Managing Director and Vice President, Agrium Europe and, prior thereto, Senior Director, Wholesale Strategy & Business Development.

Patrick Freeman

 Mr. Patrick J. Freeman serves as Vice President - Corporate Development & Strategy of Agrium Inc. He has been Vice President & Treasurer.

Kevin Helash

 Mr. Kevin R. Helash serves as Vice President - Retail, Canada/Pacific North West Region of Agrium Inc. He has been Vice President, Marketing & Distribution and, prior thereto, Senior Director, NAW Sales, Agrium.

Thomas Warner

 Mr. Thomas E. Warner serves as Vice President - Retail Distribution of Agrium Inc and President of Crop Production Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Agrium Inc. He has been Vice President of Crop Production Services, Inc.

Gary Daniel

 Mr. Gary J. Daniel serves as Corporate Secretary, Senior Legal Counsel of Agrium Inc. He has been Assistant Corporate Secretary & Senior Legal Counsel, Agrium.

David Everitt

 Mr. David C. Everitt serves as an Independent Director of Agrium Inc., since February 11, 2013. Mr. Everitt recently retired as president, agricultural division, for North America, Australia, Asian and Global Tractor Sourcing and Turf Products and Technology for Deere & Company of Moline, Ill. He is intimately familiar with procurement, marketing and distribution in the global agricultural market space. In this role, Mr. Everitt had responsibility for global tractor and crop care products. With Deere & Company since 1975, Mr. Everitt was previously president, agricultural division, Europe, Africa, South America and Global Harvesting Equipment Sourcing, senior vice-president and managing director, Region 2, Europe, Africa and CIS, and vice-president, Region 1, Worldwide Agricultural Equipment division. He is a director of Brunswick Corp. and Harsco Corp., both of which trade on the New York Stock Exchange, and is also a board member of the National Business Aviation Association, a Washington-based non-profit industry group.

Russ Girling

 Mr. Russell K. Girling serves as an Independent Director of Agrium Inc. Mr. Girling is a Director, and the President and Chief Executive Officer of TransCanada Corporation, a diversified energy and pipeline company (having been appointed in July 2010), and the former Chief Operating Officer of TransCanada Corporation. Mr. Girling is a former Chairman of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) and the Natural Gas Council (NGC), and a former director of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA). Mr. Girling is the former Board Chair and Chief Executive Officer of TC Pipelines GP, Inc., (the general partner of TC Pipelines, L.P. (a pipeline limited partnership)), a former Board Chair of TransCanada Power, L.P. (now EPCOR Power L.P.), and a former director of Bruce Power Inc. (a nuclear power company). Mr. Girling was previously President, Pipelines, of TransCanada Corporation, President of TransCanada Gas Services, a division of TransCanada Corporation, Executive Vice President, Power of TransCanada Energy, and Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Financial Officer of TransCanada Corporation. Mr. Girling is also a former director of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Fund.

Susan Henry

 Dr. Susan A. Henry B.Sc. (Zoology), Ph.D. (Genetics), serves as an Independent Director of Agrium Inc. Dr. Henry is a Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics and Dean Emerita of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Dr. Henry previously served as Dean of the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1994, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology since 1993, and is a member of the New York Governor’s Food Policy Council. Dr. Henry previously served on the National Research Council Committee on Science and Technology to Support Health Care, Sustainability and Other Aspects of Development Assistance, and as past Chair of the National Institute of Health Advisory Committee on Research on Minority Health. Dr. Henry received her Ph.D. in genetics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Russell Horner

 Mr. Russell J. Horner, B.Sc. (Chem), serves as an Independent Director of Agrium Inc. Mr. Horner is a Corporate Director. He is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Catalyst Paper Corporation (a forest products and paper company), a former Chief Operating Officer, Australasia, Fletcher Challenge Paper Division, Fletcher Challenge Limited (a forest products and paper company), and a former Managing Director of Australian Newsprint Mills Ltd. (a newsprint company). He is a former Board member of the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada, a former member of the Board of Directors of the World Wildlife Fund Canada, and a former member of the Advisory Board of Factory Mutual Insurance Company (an insurance company). He is past Chair of the Forest Products Association of Canada, past Chair of the Pulp and Paper Manufacturers Federation of Australia, a past Chair of the Commonwealth’s Wood and Paper Industry Forum (Australia), and a past Chair of the Co-operative Research Corporation for Hardwoods (Australia). Mr. Horner has attended the Advanced Management Programs at Harvard Business School and at Auckland University.

David Lesar

 Mr. David J. Lesar, B.Sc., M.B.A., CPA, serves as an Independent Director of Agrium Inc. Mr. Lesar is, and has been since 2000, the Chairman of the Board of Directors and President and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Company (a global oilfield service company). Mr. Lesar serves on the Board of Directors of the American Petroleum Institute, and is a former director of Lyondell Chemical Company (a chemical manufacturing company), and Mirant Corporation (a power company).

John Lowe

 Mr. John E. Lowe serves as an Independent Director of Agrium Inc. Mr. Lowe is currently Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer of ConocoPhillips (an integrated energy company), after having been Executive Vice President of Exploration & Production from September 2007 to October 2008, Executive Vice President of Commercial from April 2006 to September 2007, Executive Vice President of Planning, Strategy and Corporate Affairs from August 2002 to April 2006, and has held various executive and managerial positions with ConocoPhillips for more than 25 years. He is currently a director of DCP Midstream, LLC (a midstream energy company), and a former director of Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC (a global petrochemicals company). Mr. Lowe is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Houston Museum of Natural Science, is on the Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus Advisory Council, and is a former director of the National Association of Manufacturers.

A. Anne McLellan

 The The Honorable A. Anne McLellan, P.C., B.A., LL.B, LL.M, serves as an Independent Director of Agrium Inc. Ms. McLellan, a four-term Member of Parliament for Edmonton Centre, has approximately 30 years of political, policy making, and legal experience. Ms. McLellan served as Deputy Prime Minister from December 2003 to January 2006 and throughout her career has held numerous ministerial posts, including Minister of Natural Resources, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Minister of Health and the first Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. Ms. McLellan is the Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Institute for United States Policy Studies at the University of Alberta. Ms. McLellan is a director of the Edmonton Regional Airports Authority, a director of Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR), a member of the TD Securities Energy Advisory Board, Counsel at the law firm of Bennett Jones LLP, and a member of various charitable and community boards. Ms. McLellan taught law at the Universities of New Brunswick and Alberta. Ms. McLellan holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Dalhousie University and a Masters of Law degree from King’s College, University of London.

Derek Pannell

 Mr. Derek G. Pannell B.Sc. (Engineering), P. Eng., FCAE, serves as an Independent Director of Agrium Inc. Mr. Pannell is a Corporate Director. Mr. Pannell is Board Chair of Directors of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners Limited and Lead Director of African Barrick Gold plc. He is a former Managing Partner of Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (an asset management company) and a former director of Major Drilling Group International Inc. (a metals and minerals drilling service company). He was President and Chief Executive Officer of Noranda Inc. and Falconbridge Limited from 2001 to August 2006 and Vice President, Operations of Compaia Minera Antamina from 1998 to 2001. Mr. Pannell is a graduate of Imperial College in London, England and the Royal School of Mines, London, England (ARSM) and an engineer registered in Quebec and Peru.

Frank Proto

 Mr. Frank William Proto B.A. (Economics), serves as an Independent Director of Agrium Inc. He resigned from the position of Independent Chairman of the Board of the Company on May 11, 2012. Mr. Proto is Board Chair (serving on a part-time basis) of the Corporation, Board Chair of Nelson Group Inc. (an investment company), and a director of MLTC Resource Development Inc. (a First Nations resource development company owned by the Meadow Lake Tribal Council). Mr. Proto was also a director of First Calgary Petroleums Ltd. (an oil and gas company) from April 2008 to December 2008, when it was sold and ceased to be a reporting issuer. Mr. Proto is a former Chair of the Petroleum Technology Research Centre at the University of Regina, a former Chief Executive Officer of Wascana Energy Inc. (an energy company), a former Chair of SaskEnergy Inc. (a natural gas distribution and transmission company), and a former member of the Canada Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board (a regulatory agency). He is a former director of each of Chieftain Development Ltd. (an energy company), Century Sales and Service Limited (an industrial company), and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corporation (Sasktel) (a telecommunications company).

Mayo Schmidt

 Mr. Mayo M. Schmidt serves as an Independent Director of Agrium Inc. Mr. Schmidt was president, chief executive officer and a director of Viterra Inc., a global agribusiness with a network of 263 agricultural retail locations. Prior to its acquisition by Glencore International PLC on Dec. 18, 2012, Viterra was the only publicly traded agricultural retailer of fertilizer, crop chemicals and seed in North America, other than Agrium. During his tenure, Mr. Schmidt developed the vision and strategy to transform the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool from a regional co-operative to Viterra, a $6.1-billion global corporation. Canadian Business Magazine recognized his efforts when it named him Chief Executive of the Year in 2009. The hallmarks of Mr. Schmidt's leadership at Viterra were shareholder value creation and growth into new markets, supported by a global intelligence network, a financial foundation and a steady focus on operational excellence. Prior to joining Viterra, he was executive vice-president, domestic and international operations, Conagra Foods Inc. Mr. Schmidt is a member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executive Officers (open to the top 150 Canadian corporations), a member of Washburn University's board of trustees and the Lincoln Society, and a contributor to Harvard University's private and public, scientific, academic, and consumer food policy group. He also serves on the board of directors of the Global Transportation Hub Authority.

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