Itafos Announces Appointment of Chief Executive Officer
01 December 2020 - 12:30AM
Itafos (TSX-V: IFOS) (the “Company”) announced today that its Board
of Directors has appointed G. David Delaney as Chief Executive
Officer (“CEO”), effective immediately. Mr. Delaney has been
serving as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors since
February 6, 2017 and will continue in that role. Mr. Delaney
succeeds Dr. Mhamed Ibnabdeljalil who served as CEO since May 16,
2019.
Mr. Delaney is a senior executive with over 30
years’ experience in leadership roles within the fertilizer and
agricultural sectors. Mr. Delaney previously served as Chief
Commercial Officer at Farmer’s Business Network Inc., an
independent network of thousands of North America’s most advanced
farmers. Prior to that, Mr. Delaney served as a Strategic Advisor
for Paine & Partners, LLC (now Paine Schwartz Partners), a
private equity firm that focuses on the large and growing food and
agricultural sectors. Prior to these roles, Mr. Delaney was the
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Potash
Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (“PotashCorp”) where he oversaw
operations across the company’s business segments, spanning 16
different sites. Earlier in his career at PotashCorp, Mr. Delaney
served as President of Sales and Marketing where he led the
centralization of the global sales function and had oversight of
all sales, marketing, market research, transportation and
distribution activities. Prior to joining PotashCorp, Mr. Delaney
held various sales and product positions at Arcadian Corporation
Ltd until it was acquired by PotashCorp in 1997. Mr. Delaney has
served on numerous boards, including Arab Potash Company, Brandt,
Farmers Business Network, Inc., Orbis Health Solutions and Willard
Agri-Service, and other industry boards, including Canpotex, Fluid
Fertilization Association, Phosphate Chemicals Expert Association
and the International Plant Nutrition Institute, and currently
serves as President of the Southern Illinois University Foundation.
Mr. Delaney holds a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from
Southern Illinois University.
“The Board is extremely pleased to have David as
CEO. David is highly respected within our industry and has been an
independent director of the Company for several years. His in-depth
knowledge of the industry and Company, combined with his
collaborative leadership style and adaptability, will serve both
him and the Company well,” said Anthony Cina, Chairman of the
Company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Cina added, “On behalf of the
Board, I would also like to thank Mhamed for his service and
contributions to the Company.”
Mr. Delaney said, “I am very excited to join the
Company’s management team and its terrific employees. The Company
is uniquely positioned to continue serving our customers safely and
reliably from our existing asset base with improving market
fundamentals representing a positive change for our current product
portfolio and our future. I look forward to spearheading the
Company’s growth in the agricultural sector.”
About Itafos
The Company is a pure play phosphate and specialty
fertilizer platform with an attractive portfolio of strategic
businesses and projects located in key fertilizer markets,
including North America, South America and Africa.
The Company’s businesses and projects are as
follows:
- Conda – a vertically integrated
phosphate fertilizer business with production capacity of
approximately 550kt per year of monoammonium phosphate (“MAP”), MAP
with micronutrients (“MAP+”), superphosphoric acid (“SPA”),
merchant grade phosphoric acid (“MGA”) and ammonium polyphosphate
(“APP”) located in Idaho, US;
- Arraias – a vertically integrated
phosphate fertilizer business with production capacity of
approximately 500kt per year of single superphosphate (“SSP”), SSP
with micronutrients (“SSP+”) and approximately 40kt per year of
excess sulfuric acid located in Tocantins, Brazil;
- Farim – a high-grade phosphate mine
project located in Farim, Guinea-Bissau;
- Paris Hills – a high-grade
phosphate mine project located in Idaho, US;
- Santana – a vertically integrated
high-grade phosphate mine and fertilizer plant project located in
Pará, Brazil;
- Mantaro – a phosphate mine project
located in Junin, Peru; and
- Araxá – a vertically integrated
rare earth elements and niobium mine and extraction plant project
located in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
The Company’s principal shareholder is CL
Fertilizers Holding LLC (“CLF”). CLF is an affiliate of Castlelake,
L.P., a global private investment firm.
The Company’s shares trade on the TSX Venture
Exchange (“TSX-V”) under the trading symbol “IFOS”. The Company’s
registered office is at Ugland House, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
KY1-1104.
For more information, or to join the Company’s
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please visit the Company’s website at www.itafos.com.
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This information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties
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materially from those anticipated in such forward looking
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in this news release should not be unduly relied upon.
Forward looking information is subject to a
number of risks and other factors that could cause actual results
and events to vary materially from that anticipated by such forward
looking information. Although the Company has attempted to identify
important factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those contained in forward-looking statements,
there may be other factors that cause results not to be as
anticipated, estimated or intended. Factors that may cause actual
results to differ materially from expected results described in
forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those
risk factors set out in the Company’s management’s discussion and
analysis of operations and financial condition and other disclosure
documents available under the Company’s profile at www.sedar.com
and on the Company’s website at www.itafos.com. Readers are
cautioned that the foregoing list of risks, uncertainties and
assumptions are not exhaustive. The forward-looking information
included in this news release is expressly qualified by this
cautionary statement and is made as of the date of this news
release. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or
revise any forward-looking information except as required by
applicable securities laws.
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