June 3, 2010, Greensboro, NC – Syngenta has announced several key management appointments for its North American Lawn & Garden leadership team.

• Tim Kroenke is now head of the company’s North American Lawn & Garden Division. He most recently led the North American Professional Flowers business. His responsibilities will include overall management, and profit and loss for Syngenta’s plant protection, flowers and growing media businesses throughout the region.

• Keelan Pulliam is head of the Flowers Professional group and will oversee management of the businesses that serve the professional greenhouse and nursery industry: 

(i)         Syngenta Flowers, Inc., the wholesale genetics organization which combines the seed and vegetative genetics for the professional greenhouse and nursery industries under the brands Goldsmith®, Goldfisch® and Yoder®.

(ii)         The ornamental plant protection business, producers of such products as Daconil® and Heritage® fungicides, Barricade® herbicide, Avid® insecticide, and Bonzi® plant growth regulator.

(iii)        Conrad Fafard, Inc., producers of professional growing media and consumer growing media under the Fafard brand.

(iv)        Syngenta Horticultural Services distribution business.

Pulliam joined Syngenta in 1979 and has held various leadership positions in Crop Protection and Professional Products. Most recently, he was president of Conrad Fafard, Inc.

• Scott Reasons is head of the North American Turf & Landscape/Consumer business and will oversee numerous customer categories for Syngenta , including Golf, Turf & Landscape, Aquatics, Home Care and Consumer Products.

Since 1986, Reasons has held various commercial roles at Syngenta, in both Crop Protection and Lawn & Garden. His most recent position was head of marketing for the Turf, Landscape and Consumer businesses.