Primary Job Title Senior Vice President and President Primary Organization Archer Daniels Midland Company
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States Regions Greater Chicago Area, Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
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Joe Taets is senior vice president, president of Archer Daniels Midland Company’s Agricultural Services business unit, and president, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
In his current role, Taets is responsible for the commercial activities and the operations of the company’s agricultural origination, wheat milling, and global trading, as well as
ADM’s transportation network, which spans more than 75 countries. He also oversees strategy and growth activity across ADM’s business lines in Europe, Africa and India.
Previously, he was president of ADM’s grain group, with responsibility for the company’s domestic and export grain businesses, grain-merchandising operations, destination-marketing business, and ocean freight and vessel operations. Earlier, he was managing director of the company’s European operations. He joined ADM in 1988.
Taets serves on the boards of ADM International; ADM Crop Risk Services; American River Transportation Company; ADM Australia Holdings; Golden Peanut and Tree Nuts; ADM Grain River System Inc.; and Pacificor, LLC, an ADM joint venture. He also represents ADM on international boards in Canada, Germany, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Holland, Mexico, Panama and Switzerland.
Taets holds a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University and an MBA from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
