Cool Planet appoints Rik Miller as new chairman

Denver, Co. – Cool Planet, an agricultural technology company, recently announced multiple changes to its board of directors.

First, the company has appointed Rik Miller, the former president of DuPont Crop Protection, as chairman of the company’s board of directors. He will replace Howard Janzen as chairman. Janzen, the ex-CEO of Cool Planet, will remain on the board.

The company will also add a new director. Dwight Armstrong, the former CEO of National FFA Organization and vice president of the Global Group at Provimi. Armstrong will replace Dennis Weibling, who has resigned from the board to facilitate the change to a heightened agricultural focused board of directors. All board changes will go into effect immediately.

Since joining Cool Planet’s board of directors in 2017, Miller has helped guide the company’s strategic growth plan, research and development investment, and sales and marketing strategy for its soil health product-line, Cool Terra, as well as the company’s emerging seed germination / early plant establishment and biological delivery technologies.

“Rik brings tremendous credibility and strategic vision to our board of directors, and when coupled with his successful background at DuPont in developing and launching globally relevant ag products, he is a natural fit to be Chairman of our Board,” Cool Planet CEO Jim Loar said.

As the former CEO of National FFA, and experience at animal nutrition company Provimi leading the operations and acquisitions of multiple nutritional brands, Cool Planet hopes Armstrong will help progress their agribusiness partnerships and help develop its animal nutrition technology, Cool Fauna.

“Cool Planet takes an innovative, science-based approach to research and development that is progressive and provides growers and producers tools that result in a more productive, profitable, and sustainable future,” Armstrong said. “I’m excited to join this exceptional team and help them reach more producers with their transformational technology.”