A senior manager from international ag commodities trader Toepfer International is Viterra’s new senior vice-president for international grain.
Donald Chapman, who since 1996 had managed Toepfer’s commercial activity and risk management at its Asian regional head office in Singapore, will work out of Viterra’s Calgary office.
Chapman has been in the grain industry since 1986, starting in Winnipeg as a grain buyer and trader and joining Toepfer there in 1994, relocating to Hamburg for them the following year. At Toepfer’s head office in Germany he was responsible for international grain, particularly the global trade in corn and feed wheat.
Viterra CEO Mayo Schmidt, who led the new company’s formation out of the merged Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Agricore United, said Chapman “will be instrumental in developing and establishing our company’s platform for growth in the coming years.”
