William Hale is a proven values-based leader with ten years of commercial experience, seven of business and strategic leadership and four of global function leadership. William has built a reputation of mastering operating in a global matrixed organization and breaking down business and function silos in getting teams to work together in partnering towards a common goal. He is seen as a culture champion with an ability to build trust with global teams quickly, allowing for the acceleration of results and the turnaround of organizations.
William recently completed 15 years at Cargill with his last role as the Chief of Global Operations for Cargill’s Corporate Strategy & Development function, the largest, global in-house function of its kind. Cargill is the largest privately owned Company in the United States and the fourth in the world with revenues of $165 billion, 160,000 employees, operating in 70 countries within the agriculture and food manufacturing industry.
William joined Cargill in August of 2010 and has since been quickly promoted in the 13 years he has been with the company. William started out as a Commodity Merchant with Cargill’s flour milling joint venture, Horizon Milling and in 2012 moved on to become the Business Development Leader. In 2013 he joined Cargill Animal Nutrition as a Global Strategy Lead for the enterprise leading country strategy refreshes, acquisition game boarding and capital planning. From 2016 to 2019, he was the Group Strategy Leader for Cargill’s second largest business, Agricultural Supply Chain North America, where he provided strategic leadership for crop inputs, grain and oilseed origination, oilseed processing and biodiesel production, domestic and export trade, global cotton trading and marine and terminal operations.
Prior to Cargill, William worked in the private and corporate aviation industry as a Director of Marketing and Director of Distribution and Business Development. He also has experience in the medical, financial and technology industries across small, medium and large businesses.
William is a 2002 graduate of Iowa State University where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems.
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