Gensource Potash Corporation announced that Wayne Brownlee has agreed to accept an appointment to its Board of Directors. In 1977, after acquiring a Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration from the University of Saskatchewan, Mr. Brownlee began his career as a Budget Analyst with the Saskatchewan Department of Finance. He later joined the Saskatchewan Department of Energy and Mines as an Assistant Deputy Minister.

As an Associate Deputy Minister of the Treasury Board Division of the Saskatchewan Department of Finance, he was responsible for developing and implementing the Provincial Government's annual budget and managing the Treasury Board process. His duties included policy responsibility for legislative and regulatory reform, taxation, and overall strategy. Mr. Brownlee, a former Executive Vice President and CFO of both PotashCorp.

and Nutrien brings an exceedingly rare wealth of knowledge, experience, and leadership to Gensource. Wayne joined the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan in 1989. He coordinated the Company's privatization which transformed it from a provincial Crown corporation to a publicly traded company.

Over the next three decades, Wayne was a catalyst for the expansion and development of PCS through acquisition activity. He was instrumental in the acquisition of the company's nitrogen and phosphate assets. Until 2018 Brownlee remained CFO at PCS when PCS and Agrium merged to become Nutrien, the world's largest provider of crop inputs, with its head office located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

During his term as CFO at Nutrien, Wayne oversaw all finance functions, plus the $6.0 billion divestment of equity interests in the Chilean potash producer SQM, Israel-based ICL Group and Jordan's Arab Potash Company.