Before joining American Vanguard, Dak served in a variety of senior leadership roles at Albaugh LLC, a top ten global crop protection company. His last role was President, North America, which is the company’s largest region. Previously he was Group Chief Commercial Officer, where he oversaw North America, Europe, Brazil, Argentina, and Latin America regions. Mr. Kaye also served as President of the European region for seven years. Prior to his work at Albaugh, Dak was the CFO and a Director at a non-crop subsidiary of the crop protection company, Adama, and previously held the role of Co-CEO at an international automotive logistics organization. Mr. Kaye began his career at Arthur Andersen, LLP. He has a Masters of Accountancy and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, both from Auburn University. Mr. Kaye is on the Executive Board of the industry group CropLife America (CLA).

Mr. Donnelly is Chief Information Officer, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary. Prior to joining American Vanguard he served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at DDi Corp. (Nasdaq: DDIC), a publicly held printed circuit board manufacturer. There, Mr. Donnelly managed a broad array of legal responsibilities including business plan and strategy development, SEC filings, M&A, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, corporate governance issues, securities offerings and private placements, as well as negotiations with the EPA. From 1991 to 2000 he served as Assistant General Counsel at Rockwell International Corporation where he handled M&A, various licensing agreements, and corporate litigation for the company. From 1986 to 1990 Mr. Donnelly was an Associate with the law firm Latham & Watkins where his responsibilities included corporate transactional work and civil litigation. Mr. Donnelly holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from John Carroll University and a Juris Doctor from Northwestern University Law School.

Mr. Johnson has served as Chief Financial Offer of the Company since March 7, 2008. He served as Finance Director for Amcor Flexibles UK Ltd., a five hundred million dollar manufacturer of decorative packaging and a subsidiary of Amcor, a multibillion dollar corporation based in Australia from June 2003 through March 2008. Prior to that he served as Vice President of Finance for Sterer Engineering, a subsidiary of Eaton Aerospace, an eight billion dollar Cleveland based multinational company from April 2001 through June 2003. David earned his business degree from the University of Coventry in Great Britain and is certified as a Chartered Financial Accountant.

Ms. Shirin Khosravi joined American Vanguard in the position of Senior Vice President of Human Resources in October 2023. Ms. Khosravi brings to this assignment over 30 years of progressive international HR experience in multiple Fortune 500 companies such as Dover Corporation, CRH and Holcim. In those roles, she has demonstrated extensive accomplishments in talent management, succession planning, employee engagement, process standardization and large-scale transformation and change management. She has considerable experience aligning people programs to business strategy with a passion for DEI and high-performance culture. Ms. Khosravi holds a Bachelor of Business Degree from the Edith Cowan University in Australia and Executive MBA from Western University’s Ivey Business School in Canada.

Mr. Bennett is responsible for AMVAC’s national sales strategy while also overseeing multiple regional business units and AMVAC’s U.S. key account management team and customer service team. Bennett is a 23-year veteran of U.S. agribusiness who previously served for eight years as AMVAC’s Regional Business Manager for the Southeast, where he consistently demonstrated expertise and commitment to AMVAC’s mission by successfully leading a team serving the Southwest, Mid-South, and East Coast. Upon joining AMVAC in 2016, he brought with him a wealth of knowledge and experience gained from previous sales and marketing roles with Syngenta and Dow AgroSciences. He holds a B.S. in Agriculture from the University of Arkansas and an MBA, Marketing, from Arkansas State University.

Peter joined AMVAC BV in August 2015 as Global Director of Business Development and Marketing. From January 2017 until May 2018 he executed the responsibilities of this function as VP and officer of AMVAC Corp., based in Newport Beach, California. In June 2018 he has assumed the role as Managing Director of AMVAC B.V. and AMVAC’s International business (based in Houten, Netherlands). Peter has over 25 years’ previous experience with Bayer CropScience (and its predecessors) where he served as Marketing Director for EMEA (with annual sales over €2.5 billion), Executive Head of Bayer CropScience Merger & Acquisitions/Business Development, and Country Head in various regions, including Poland, the Baltics, Iberia and Indochina, among other positions.

Vice President – Global Supply Chain and President of GemChem, Inc. – He most recently served as Strategic Sourcing Director at DuPont, where he managed procurement for both the crop protection and seed businesses. Suneet has a J.D. from Widener Law, an MBA from the University of Delaware and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. AMVAC Vice President of Global Supply Chain & Operations – Suneet joined us last May with more than 25 years of experience in operations, supply chain and technical roles in agrochemicals, specialty chemicals and plastics. In his new role, Suneet will be responsible for all procurement (whether related to manufacturing, GemChem or otherwise), strategic oversight of our manufacturing assets, make-versus-buy decisions, internal tolling activity and third-party tolling of active ingredients.

Andrew (Andy) Naughton joined AMVAC August 2022 as Vice President of Technology. Andy has over three decades’ experience in industrial chemical production having served in Fine Chemicals (Lonza), Antioxidants / Light Stabilizers (Ciba), Herbicides (BASF) and Nutritional Chemicals (DSM) on three continents. Andy has a Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey as well as an MBA from Quincy University and a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Prior to joining us Andy worked as Manager of Process Engineering at EI Associates in New Jersey. Andy combines solid foundations in both Chemistry and Engineering with a passion for Process Improvement, Six Sigma Methodology, and Project Management.

Mr. Young joined American Vanguard as Director of Investor Relations in April 2024. With 15 years of equity research, M&A, and strategic analysis, he brings valuable insights to the AVD team. Prior to joining the company, he served in key roles at American Battery Technology Company as Director of Investor Relations and Business Development. Prior to that he served as the Founder and Portfolio Manager of Edendale Capital, a long/short hedge fund focusing on automation, mobility, and clean energy. He holds an MS, Electrical Engineering, from the University of Southern California and an MBA, Finance, from the Texas McCombs School of Business.