Balchem Corporation Elects Kathleen Fish as Class 1 Director, Corporate Governance & Nominating Committee of the Board
June 21, 2021 at 06:15 am EDT
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In accordance with the Balchem Corporation’s (the “ Corporation”) Bylaws, on June 17, 2021, the Corporation’s Board of Directors (the “ Board”) elected Kathleen Fish to a vacancy on the Board. Ms. Fish will serve as a Class 1 Director and will stand for election by the Corporation’s shareholders at the Corporation’s 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Prior to her retirement in 2020, Ms. Fish served as Chief Research, Development and Innovation Officer for The Procter & Gamble Company, having held such position since 2017. From 2014 to 2017, Ms. Fish was P&G’s Chief Technology Offer. Ms. Fish began her career at P&G in 1979 and held various positions of increasing responsibility during her tenure at P&G, culminating with her holding the positions set forth above. Ms. Fish will serve on the Corporate Governance & Nominating Committee of the Board and will be eligible to participate in the Corporation’s director compensation programs.
Balchem Corporation develops, manufactures, distributes and markets specialty performance ingredients and products for the nutritional, food, pharmaceutical, animal health, medical device sterilization, plant nutrition and industrial markets. The Company's segments include Human Nutrition and Health (HNH), Animal Nutrition and Health (ANH), and Specialty Products. The HNH segment provides human grade choline nutrients and mineral amino acid chelated products for nutrition and health applications. This segment also manufactures specialty vitamin K2, which plays a role in the human body for bone health, heart health and immunity, and methylsulfonylmethane (MSM). ANH segment provides nutritional products derived from its microencapsulation and chelation technologies in addition to the nutrient choline chloride. Through Specialty Products, it re-packages and distributes a number of gases and chemicals for various uses by its customers, notably ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, and ammonia.