RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — BASF Corporation has announced the appointment of Stephen Briggs to the position of director of its Specialty Products Department. The department incorporates the company’s professional turf & ornamental, vegetation management/forestry, pest control and turf fungicide businesses.
In his new role, Briggs will be responsible for all aspects of the department’s current operations – in addition to orchestrating the merger of TopPro Specialties group. He will also oversee the anticipated acquisition of the noncrop fipronil business that BASF is currently negotiating with Bayer CropScience AG.
Briggs brings more than 10 years of senior-level experience to his position. Most recently, he served as vice president of TopPro Specialties, Memphis, Tenn., a unit of the Micro Flo Company and a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF Corporation. While at TopPro, he directed the Specialty Group, with generic product responsibilities including general management, sales, marketing and strategic direction. Prior to his years with TopPro, he was vice president and general manager of the SPD group of American Cyanamid, Parsippany, N.J., where he provided direction for the vegetation management, forestry, professional turf and Amdro® fire ant consumer businesses. Briggs also spent more than six years at the University of Illinois as an extension entomologist.
Briggs earned a master's degree in entomology in 1980 from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va., and will be relocating from Memphis to BASF SPD Headquarters in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
