A former Canadian Wheat Board director and Alberta Pool executive has been named to grain handler Viterra’s board of directors.
Bonnie DuPont, a vice-president with Calgary energy transportation firm Enbridge, was appointed Wednesday to the Viterra board, as was Larry Ruud, an Alberta farmer and farm management consultant.
Before joining Enbridge, DuPont was a director of human resources with Alberta Pool, which later merged into Agricore and then into Agricore United before that firm merged with Saskatchewan Wheat Pool to become Viterra.
DuPont was named as one of the five government-appointed directors of the CWB’s 15-member board in 2001 by then-CWB Minister Ralph Goodale. She served on the CWB board until 2006.
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DuPont is also currently a director with the Bank of Canada and with NetThruput, a web-based crude oil trading company. The Women’s Executive Network in late 2006 named her as one of Canada’s 100 most powerful women.
Ruud, also newly elected to the Viterra board, is a partner with Meyers Norris Penny, where he serves as the firm’s director of intensive livestock and acts as a management consultant for farm clients in Alberta and B.C. An ag economist by training, he also owns and operates a farm at Vermilion, Alta.
Ruud and DuPont replace director Rick Jensen, who farms at Webb in southwestern Saskatchewan. Jensen had been a Viterra delegate for 20 years and a director with SaskPool since 2004.
The appointments were announced during Viterra’s first shareholders’ meeting in Winnipeg, where shareholders also agreed to formally change the company’s corporate name from Saskatchewan Wheat Pool to Viterra.
