Chairman EmeritusCargill, Inc.
Warren Staley was elected Chairman of the Board in August 2000. He continues to hold the office of chief executive officer, a position to which he was elected in June 1999. He held the office of president and chief operating officer from February 1998 to June 2000. He was elected to Cargill's Board of Directors in August 1995. He serves on the Executive and Governance committees of the Board. He is chairman of the Corporate Leadership Team.
Staley joined Cargill as a trainee in 1969 and held various merchandising and administrative positions in corn milling in the United States and in Europe. He was head of Cargill in Argentina, president of Worldwide Feed, and president of North America and Latin America.
Staley received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Kansas State University, Manhattan, in 1965, and a master's degree in business administration from Cornell University in 1967.
Staley is a member of the board of directors of U.S. Bancorp and Target Corporation. He is a member of the board of the Greater Twin Cities United Way; he served as Chairman of the Board in 2004-05 and was Co-Chair with his wife, Mary Lynn, for the 2002 Campaign. He serves as a member of the President’s Export Council, The Business Council and the Strategic Board of Governors of the University of St. Thomas College of Business. Staley serves as Chairman of the Minnesota Early Learning Foundation. He served on the board of Minnesota’s Private Colleges Council for six years. Warren and Mary Lynn serve on the board of governors of Eleven Who Care.
He was born May 14, 1942, in Springfield, Ill.