Board of Directors

Juan R. Luciano is chairman of the board of directors, president and chief executive officer of ADM.

Luciano joined ADM in 2011 as executive vice president and chief operating officer. He was named president in February 2014, and in January 2015 became the ninth chief executive in ADM’s 112-year history. He became chairman of the board in January 2016.

Under Luciano’s leadership, ADM has undergone a remarkable evolution, building on more than a century of heritage to create a global nutrition business, with an industry-leading array of ingredients and solutions that are opening the door to growth opportunities in key global macro trend areas. He has spearheaded the increased use of innovative technologies to meet customer needs, and led a strategic growth campaign that has expanded ADM’s global footprint, building capabilities and adding talent and expertise that allow it to create value at every part of the global value chain.

Before joining ADM, Luciano had a successful 25-year tenure at The Dow Chemical Company, where he last served as executive vice president and president of the Performance division.

Luciano serves on the boards of directors of Eli Lilly and Company and nonprofit economic development organization Intersect Illinois, and is an alternate member of the board for Wilmar International. He serves on the Global Advisory Board of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, the Commercial Club of Chicago, the Business Roundtable, and the United States-China Business Council.

Luciano holds an industrial engineering degree from the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology.

Mike Burke joined ADM’s board of Directors in May 2018, and is a member of the compensation/succession and nominating/corporate governance committees.

Burke is Chairman and CEO of AECOM, which designs, builds, finances and operates infrastructure assets in more than 150 countries. Prior to his current position, Burke served as AECOM’s senior vice president of corporate strategy; chief corporate officer; chief financial officer; and president. Before joining AECOM in 2005, he served in a variety of leadership positions, including as a member of the board of directors, at KPMG LLP.

Burke is a member of the Business Roundtable Board of Directors, and serves as Chair of the organization’s Infrastructure Committee. He is Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Infrastructure and Urban Development community, and also serves as vice chair of the Children’s Bureau Board of Directors.

Burke holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Scranton, and a J.D. from the Southwestern University School of Law.

Terry Crews joined ADM’s board of directors in May 2011. He serves as chairman of its audit committee and is a member of the executive and nominating/corporate governance committees.

Crews retired from Monsanto in November 2009 following a 32-year tenure with the company that culminated in nearly a decade of service as its executive vice president and chief financial officer. Crews also served as CEO of Monsanto’s vegetable division from August 2008 until his retirement.

Earlier, he was the global finance lead for Monsanto’s Global Seed Group, where he oversaw the financial integration of 11 acquired seed companies. And in 1997, he was appointed the company’s general auditor following assignments as controller for Latin America and as CFO of Monsanto’s Asia-Pacific operations.

Crews is a member of the board of directors of Hormel Foods Corporation, where he serves as chairman of the audit committee and a member of the compensation committee, and WestRock Company, where he serves as the chairman of the finance committee and is a member of the audit committee. He is also lead director at Teays River Investments, is a member of the board of trustees at Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tenn., and serves on the board of Junior Achievement of Greater St. Louis.

Crews holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Freed-Hardeman University and a master’s degree in management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Pierre Dufour joined ADM’s board of directors in May 2010 and serves on the board’s audit and sustainability/corporate responsibility committees.

Dufour is a member of the board of directors of Paris-based Air Liquide Group, where he chairs the environment and society committee. He joined Air Liquide—the world leader in gases for industry, health care and environmental applications—in 1997 and served in a number of senior executive roles there, including as senior executive vice president.

Prior to joining Air Liquide Group, Dufour was executive vice president of SNC-LAVALIN, Inc., a Montreal-based engineering contractor. He began his career with SNC-LAVALIN in 1976.

Dufour holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the École Polytechnique Montréal, a master’s degree in civil engineering from Stanford University, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Montreal.

Donald E. Felsinger joined ADM’s Board of Directors in August 2009 and currently serves as its lead director and as a member of the executive committee.

Felsinger is the retired chairman and CEO of Sempra Energy—a San Diego-based Fortune 500 energy services holding company whose subsidiaries provide electricity, natural gas and value-added products and services to more than 40 million consumers worldwide.

Mr. Felsinger was named Sempra’s Chairman and CEO in 2006 after having served as the company’s president and chief operating officer.

Earlier in his career, he was group president of Sempra Global, the umbrella for Sempra Energy’s businesses operating in competitive energy markets. In that role, Felsinger led Sempra Energy’s expansion into successful businesses in power generation, energy-infrastructure development, energy trading and marketing, and liquefied natural gas development.

Prior to the merger that formed Sempra Energy, Felsinger was president and chief operating officer of Enova Corporation. Earlier, he was president and chief executive officer of San Diego Gas & Electric.

Felsinger serves on the boards of the Northrop Grumman Corporation—where he is lead director and a member of the compensation and governance committees—and Gannett Company, where he chairs the compensation committee and is a member of the audit committee. He is a member of the Lead Director Network (LDN), and has been a member of the Conference Board, a director of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, and a director of the US-Mexico Chamber of Commerce. In addition, he has served on the Green Foundation and was co-chair of the Forum Fronterizo Council of the San Diego Dialogue. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona and is a graduate of the Stanford University executive program.

Suzan F. Harrison joined ADM’s board of directors in May 2017, and serves as chair of its sustainability/corporate responsibility committee as well as a member of the executive and compensation/succession committees.

From 1983 through 2019, Harrison held a variety of leadership positions at Colgate-Palmolive Company, the most recent being president of Global Oral Care. Prior to that, she was president of Hill’s Pet Nutrition Inc. North America, a position she held from 2009 to 2011. Before that, she served as vice president, Marketing, for Colgate U.S., and vice president and general manager of Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals, North America and Europe.

Harrison holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing and business from Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Patrick J. Moore joined ADM’s board of directors in November 2003. He is chairman of its nominating/corporate governance committee and serves as a member of the executive and audit committees.

Moore currently serves as president and CEO of PJM Advisors, LLC, an investment and advisory firm that also maintains an affiliate relationship with a large New York-based private equity firm.

From 2002 until 2011, Moore was chairman and chief executive officer of Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation (formerly Jefferson Smurfit Corporation), a producer of containerboard and corrugated packaging and one of the world’s largest paper recyclers. His 24-year tenure at Smurfit also included service as chief financial officer, vice president general manager of the company’s Industrial Packaging division, and treasurer.

Earlier in his career, Moore held positions in corporate lending, international banking and corporate administration at Continental Bank in Chicago.

Moore is vice-chairman of the board of Energizer Holdings, Inc. He also serves on the North American Review Board of American Air Liquide Holdings, Inc., and on the boards of the St. Louis Zoological Society and the Big Shoulders Fund.

Moore holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from DePaul University and currently serves on the university’s board of trustees.

Francisco Sanchez joined ADM’s board of directors in May 2014, and serves as a member of its audit committee and sustainability/corporate responsibility committees.

Sanchez is senior managing director at Pt Capital, a private equity firm focused on Alaska and certain Nordic nations including Iceland and Finland. He is also the Chairman and CEO of CNS Global Advisors, a firm focused on international trade and investment. He joined the law firm Holland & Knight as a partner in July 2020.

Sanchez served as the undersecretary for international trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce from 2010 to 2013. Previously, he held the position of assistant secretary for aviation and international affairs at the U.S. Department of Transportation, served in the White House as a special assistant to President Bill Clinton, and was chief of staff to the special envoy to the Americas. He also co-founded and served on the board of NorthStar Bank, in Tampa, Florida.

Sanchez is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and served on the board of directors for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) from 2010 to 2013. He is a member of the board of Teewinot Life Sciences, and of the non-profit H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Research Center. He has been awarded the National Point of Light Award as well as the Governor’s Point of Light Award for Outstanding Community Service in Florida. In 2010, he was named to the National Hall of Fame for the Boys and Girls Club of America.

Sanchez holds a bachelor’s degree and a J.D. from Florida State University, and a master’s degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Debra A. Sandler joined ADM’s board of directors in May 2016, and serves as a member of the audit and nominating/corporate governance committees.

Sandler is president and CEO of LaGrenade Group, LLC, a marketing consultancy that serves packaged goods companies operating in the health and wellness space. She is also the founder of Mavis Foods, LLC, an entrepreneurial startup of Caribbean sauces and marinades. Previously she worked for over 30 years in senior leadership roles at PepsiCo, Johnson & Johnson and Mars. Most recently, she served as chief health and wellbeing officer at Mars, after serving there as chief consumer officer and president of Mars Chocolate North America. Prior to joining Mars, she spent 10 years with Johnson & Johnson in a variety of leadership roles, and before that, 13 years with PepsiCo.

She currently serves on the boards of Dollar General and of Gannett Co., Inc., where she chairs the nominating and public responsibility committee. She is also a member of the board of advisors of Pharmavite, LLC, a trustee of Hofstra University, and a member of the Executive Leadership Council.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Business from Hofstra University and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Dr. Lei Zhang Schlitz was elected to ADM’s board of directors in May 2019. She is a member of the audit as well as the sustainability and corporate responsibility committees.

Schlitz has held a series of senior-level positions for Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW), an innovative, diversified Fortune 200 manufacturing company with operations in 55 countries, approximately 48,000 employees, and more than 18,000 current and pending patents. Currently, she serves as executive vice president of ITW’s Food Equipment segment, a $2.2 billion business that designs and manufactures state-of-the-art commercial ovens, dishwashers, refrigerators, food processing equipment, and after-sales services for commercial food service and food retail customers around the globe.

Prior to joining ITW in October 2008, Schlitz spent seven years at Siemens Energy and Automation. She held P&L responsibility for an emerging growth business segment and successfully grew the product portfolio by building strong market-driven strategy, developing a high-performance team and driving differentiated innovative growth. She also had positions managing product development groups with increasing responsibilities in various Siemens divisions. Prior to that, Schlitz worked at GE Global Research and GE Industrial Systems as a program manager, developing next-generation electrical distribution products and equipment. She started her career at Eaton Innovation Center.

Schlitz holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and a bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics from Tsinghua University in Beijing. She is a member of the Society of Women Engineers.

Kelvin R. Westbrook joined ADM’s board of directors in November 2003. He serves as chairman of the compensation/succession committee and as a member of the executive and the nominating/corporate governance committees.

Westbrook is president and chief executive officer of KRW Advisors, LLC, a privately held consulting firm serving the telecommunications and media industries, among others. He established the firm after a nine-year tenure with Millennium Digital Media Systems, LLC, the broadband telecommunication services company he founded in 1997. He was the company’s chairman and chief strategic officer from October 2006 to September 2007, and had previously served as its president and CEO.

In 1993, Westbrook founded and served as the president and chairman of LEB Communications, Inc., an affiliate of Charter Communications. Earlier, he had been a partner in the corporate law and mergers and acquisitions practice of New York law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker.

Westbrook serves as a director of several public companies, including Camden Property Trust (Lead Trust Manager), The Mosaic Company, and T-Mobile US, Inc. In addition, he serves on the boards of BJC HealthCare (Chairman) and the St. Louis Internship Program. He also serves on the Washington University School of Medicine National Council and the Advisory Board of the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. He previously served on the boards of Angelia Corporation, Stifel Financial Corp., the National Cable Satellite Corporation (C-SPAN), St. Louis Children’s Hospital, and The Municipal Theatre Association of St. Louis (The Muny).

He received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Washington in 1977 and a doctoral degree from Harvard Law School in 1982.