UPI Restructures, Names New Management

Avatar for Matt Hopkins By Andrea Klosterman Harris|17 December 2008

Current Vice President of Sales, Wayne Smith, will lead the decentralized national account management team. Smith will have oversight of four regional sales directors who will assume day-to-day management responsibilities for customer accounts in the company’s Northern, Southern, Western, and Canadian regions.

Director of Business Services Gary Kreckmann will lead customer service, overseeing customer service, communications, and information technology. Kreckmann will remain the interim Northern Regional Sales Director until his replacement is announced.

Greg Hutchison, who brings more than 20 years of logistics and supply chain management experience, will guide the supply chain management efforts as director. UPI also announced the appointment of Brian Cardin to the position of southern regional sales director. Cardin brings more than 20 years of sales and sales management experience in the crop protection industry with companies such as Sipcam Agro USA, Estes, UAP, Novartis Crop Protection, and Bayer Corporation.