Gregory r page biography
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Gregory Page
Last Updated: 11, July 2024
Former CEO and current Chair of the Board of Cargill, Inc.
Greg Page serves as Executive Director of Cargill. He served as Executive Chairman from December 2013 to September 2015, and as Chief Executive Officer from June 2007 to December 2013. He was elected to the Cargill Board of Directors in August 2000 and elected Chairman of the board on Sept. 11, 2007.
Page joined Cargill in 1974 as a trainee assigned to the Feed Division. Over the years, he held a number of positions in the United States and Singapore. Page worked with the start-up of a poultry processing operation in Thailand, the beef and pork processing operations of Cargill’s Excel subsidiary in Wichita, Kansas, and the Financial Markets Group in Minneapolis.
Page serves as a member of the board of directors of Eaton Corporation, Deere & Company and 3M. He is past-chair of the board of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and immediate past-presid
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Gregory R. Page
American businessman (born 1952)
Gregory "Greg" R. Page (born 1952) is an American businessman. He served as executive chairman of Cargill, Inc. of Minnetonka, Minnesota.
Early life
[edit]Gregory R. Page was born in 1952 in Bottineau, North Dakota.[1] He graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of North Dakota,[2] where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.
Cargill Inc
[edit]He joined Cargill in 1974,[1] and began his career as a trainee assigned to the Feed Division. From 1995 to 1998, Page was the president of the Red Meat Group. In 1998 to 2000, Page served as the corporate vice president and sector president of financial markets and Red Meat Group. Since 2000, Page has served as the president and chief operating officer of Cargill Inc.[3][4]
On June 1, 2007, Page was named chief executive officer of Cargill, succeeding Warren Staley. Page served as executive
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Kardea Brown
Emmy Nominated Food Network Host and Author, Host of “Delicious Miss Brown,” Former BBBS Staff
Kardea Brown is an Emmy Nominated contemporary Southern Chef born in Charleston, South Carolina, and host of the Food Network series, “Delicious Miss Brown,” now in its eighth season. Of Gullah Geechee descent, Kardea was raised by her single mother and grandmother and spent much of her childhood on Wadmalaw Island among the Gullah community where she grew up with the foods, flavors, history and heritage of her culture.
The Gullah community formed when West Africans arrived in the Lowcountry as slaves and they developed a cuisine born of necessity, making use of local ingredients harvested from land and sea. It was through her grandmother that Kardea learned of and tasted the traditional foods of her ancestry, learning to prepare many of the dishes she cooks today. While dedicated to preserving her culinary roots and sharing the history of her culture, over time Kard