CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U.S. — Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) announced on May 5 at its 93rd annual stockholders’ meeting the election of its board of directors, including new director, Debra Sandler. 

Sandler most recently served as chief health and wellbeing officer at Mars, after serving there as chief consumer officer and president of Mars Chocolate North America. She also previously held senior leadership positions at Johnson & Johnson and PepsiCo. 


“Debra’s extensive expertise in consumer packaged goods will be an extremely valuable asset to ADM as we continue expanding and evolving in the food ingredient space,” said Juan Luciano, ADM chairman and chief executive officer. “We are pleased that Debra is joining our board of directors.” 

The board’s 11 incumbent directors were also re-elected. The directors re-elected are: Alan L. Boeckmann, Mollie Hale Carter, Terrell K. Crews, Pierre Dufour, Donald E. Felsinger, Juan R. Luciano, Antonio Maciel Neto, Patrick J. Moore, Francisco Sanchez, Daniel Shih and Kelvin R. Westbrook.