BASF Corporation this week announced the appointment of Markus Heldt as President, Crop Protection, BASF. Heldt, who held the position of Group Vice President, North America for the past three years, will relocate to the company’s global headquarters in Limburgerhof, Germany.

Heldt is pictured here (right) with Michael Heinz, the man he is succeeding as president of crop protection, during a 2007 BASF media tour to Germany. Heinz has been promoted higher up on the BASF corporate ladder.

In turn, taking Markus’ previous role as BASF group VP for crop protection is Nevin McDougall. Most recently, McDougall was Vice President, US Business Operations, Crop Protection. McDougall has spent the last 16 years with BASF and its legacy company (American Cyanamid) working in Canada, Asia and the United States, where he has served in a variety of sales, marketing and management roles. McDougall has also led BASF operations in the Asia Pacific region as Group Vice President for Agricultural Products.

We look forward to working with Nevin and hopefully seeing him at Commodity Classic in a few weeks. Congratulations to all!