Syngenta announces North American lawn and garden leadership appointments

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Syngenta announced several key management appointments for its North American lawn and garden leadership team.
 
Tim Kroenke is now head of the company’s North American lawn and garden division. He most recently led the North American Professional Flowers business. His responsibilities will include overall management as well as profit and loss for Syngenta’s plant protection, flowers and growing media businesses throughout the region.
 
Keelan Pulliam is head of the Flowers Professional organization and will oversee management of the businesses that serve the professional greenhouse and nursery industry:
•Syngenta Flowers, the wholesale genetics organization which combines the seed and vegetative genetics for the professional greenhouse and nursery industries under the brands Goldsmith, Goldfisch and Yoder
•the ornamental plant protection business, producers of such products as Daconil and Heritage fungicides, Barricade herbicide, Avid insecticide and Bonzi plant growth regulator
•Conrad Fafard, producers of professional growing media and consumer growing media under the Fafard brand
•Syngenta Horticultural Services distribution business
 
Pulliam joined Syngenta in 1979 and has held various leadership positions in crop protection and professional products. Most recently he was president of Conrad Fafard.
 
Scott Reasons will head the North American turf and landscape/consumer business and oversee numerous customer categories for Syngenta, including golf, turf and landscape, aquatics, home care and consumer products.
 
Since 1986, Reasons has held various commercial roles at Syngenta in both crop protection and lawn and garden. His most recent position was head of marketing for the turf, landscape and consumer businesses.

The lawn and garden businesses at Syngenta combine the company’s technical understanding and product portfolios to deliver solutions to its customers.