AB Mauri North America, a leader in yeast and bakery ingredient solutions, has named Brent Fenton as president.
Fenton succeeds Mark Prendergast, who led the North American group for eight years and will be returning to his native Sydney, Australia, to take on a new position of global markets director with the organization to focus on novel business development projects.
Fenton, a 26-year veteran with Archer Daniels Midland Co., most recently was the company’s president of its global amino acids group based in Decatur, IL. He joined AB Mauri North America on Aug. 3.
Throughout his career, Fenton has managed organizations through a variety of consolidation, M&A and organic growth efforts and held multiple executive leadership positions at ADM in its global animal nutrition business unit and oilseed processing units in both Europe and North America, as well as regional president of the Europe Middle East Africa region.
AB Mauri North America is a division of AB Mauri, a global leader in yeast and bakery ingredient products.
