Brian Ahrens accepted a promotion within MANA making him the crop protection company’s new northern regional sales manager, effective immediately. John Guion, will take over as MANA’s senior product marketing manager for insecticides, the position Ahrens has held since 2005. Guion brings to MANA over 26 years of ag industry experience.

Ahrens will relocate from the company’s national headquarters in Raleigh, N.C., to Eastern Iowa.

Prior to going to work for MANA, Ahrens held leadership positions at Bayer CropScience and BASF Agricultural Products. He graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural business.

John Guion will take over for Ahrens in Raleigh, coming to MANA with an abundance of experience and success in agricultural sales, marketing and procurement management.

He held various management positions within Terra Industries, Inc., and Agriliance LLC since 1981, serving as a regional marketing manager for southern business, manager of Agriliance’s dealer service alliance initiative and as district manager for the company’s professional products distributor arm ProSource One in Florida.

Most recently, Guion served as one of the company’s regional directors, overseeing its midsouth and southeast sales and operations while working out of its coastal division headquarters in Memphis, Tenn.

A native of Yazoo City, Miss., Guion is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He will move to the Raleigh area with his wife, Nancy, to begin work in his new position immediately.