Executive Leadership

Dr. Pierre R. Brondeau became chief executive officer of FMC in June 2024. Pierre has served as chairman of the board since October 2010, and was also chief executive officer of FMC from January 2010 until June 2020; president from January 2010 until May 2018; and executive chairman from June 2020 to April 2021.
Before joining the Company as president and CEO in January 2010, Pierre served as president and CEO, Dow Advanced Materials Division, until his retirement in September 2009. Prior to Dow’s acquisition of Rohm and Haas Company in April 2009, he was president and chief operating officer of Rohm and Haas from May 2008. Pierre held numerous executive positions during his tenure at Rohm and Haas from 1989 through May 2008 in Europe and the United States, with global responsibilities for marketing, sales, research and development, engineering, technology and operations.
Pierre previously served as a member of the board of directors of TE Connectivity Ltd., Marathon Oil Corporation and Livent Corporation.

Ronaldo Pereira was named president in June 2024. Ronaldo has been with FMC for nearly 28 years in marketing, business development and commercial leadership positions, most recently serving as executive vice president and president of the Americas region. He joined the Company as a field agronomist in 1995 and advanced through a series of roles in marketing, sales, product management and business development across Latin America before moving to the United States as the global director of strategic marketing in 2008. In 2011, he moved to Brazil to assume commercial responsibilities before leaving FMC to lead the Rotam CropSciences business in Brazil. In 2016, Ronaldo returned to FMC as general manager, Brazil before expanding his role as Vice President, Latin America. He has served as President, FMC Americas, being also responsible for the Specialty Solutions business as well as Plant Health.
Originally from Londrina, Brazil, he has lived in Brazil, Mexico and the U.S. at different stages of his career. He currently serves as chair of the board at Croplife Latin America and a board member at the American Chemistry Council.

Brian P. Angeli was appointed executive vice president and chief marketing officer in May 2024. He oversees FMC’s global product portfolio strategy, portfolio management, new product launches, strategic partnerships, and the Precision and Digital Agriculture organization.

Since joining FMC in 2014, Brian has held various leadership roles, including vice president of corporate strategy and development, treasurer, transformation officer, and vice president of investor relations and corporate development. He played a key role in major acquisitions and strategic initiatives, such as the 2014 acquisition of Cheminova, the 2017 asset swap with DuPont, and the 2022 acquisition of BioPhero. He also led the separation of FMC’s Lithium business through an IPO in 2018 and a spin-off in 2019.

Before FMC, Brian was a vice president in the Investment Banking division at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., focusing on mergers and acquisitions in the industrial and natural resources sectors. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, directing financial and accounting diligence for Fortune 500 clients.

Brian is a Certified Public Accountant with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from Boston College and an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business.

Thaisa Hugenneyer was elected Executive Vice President, Integrated Supply Chain in 2024. In this role she has responsibility for Global Manufacturing, Logistics, Supply Chain, Global Facilities, Procurement, and Environment, Health & Safety (EHS).

Most recently, Thaisa was the vice president, Procurement, Logistics and Global Facilities -- a role she had served in since 2021. Thaisa joined FMC in 2011 and held numerous roles of increasing responsibility in the Procurement function and was instrumental in supporting acquisition and separation activities. Thaisa previously worked in a variety of procurement roles at Rohm and Haas Company and DuPont. 

She earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Maua University in Brazil and an MBA from Drexel University.

Michael F. Reilly was named executive vice president, general counsel and secretary in April 2019. He joined FMC in 2002 as group counsel for the Agricultural Solutions business with responsibility for all business legal affairs, including M&A, joint ventures, litigation, and compliance. He was named assistant general counsel and group counsel for Agricultural Solutions in 2004 and was promoted to associate general counsel in 2013. Michael was named vice president, associate general counsel and chief compliance officer in 2016, with responsibility for the company’s ethics and compliance processes, as well as support of quarterly SEC disclosures and continued oversight of global Agricultural Solutions legal initiatives.

Prior to FMC, he served in several legal roles of increasing responsibility for Zeneca Inc., Zeneca Ag Products, Inc. and Syngenta Corporation. Earlier in his career, Michael worked as an attorney in private practice, specializing in litigation and environmental law, at the law firms of Sidley & Austin in New York and Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in Philadelphia.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and his juris doctorate from Harvard Law School. He previously served as a director at Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent, a provider of pro bono legal services, for which he remains active as a volunteer.

Seva Rostovtsev, Ph.D. assumed the role of vice president and chief technology officer in April of 2023 and was elected executive vice president in February 2024. In this role he oversees FMC’s global network of more than 800 scientists located in India, Brazil, France, Denmark and the United States and their collective effort to cultivate FMC’s robust discovery and development pipelines.

Previously, Seva served as FMC’s director of Discovery Chemistry for Agricultural Solutions. Prior to FMC, he held research and technical leadership roles throughout DuPont beginning in 2003, including Process Chemistry and Engineering, Emerging Technologies and Fungicide Discovery Chemistry.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the Higher Chemical College in Moscow, Russia, a Master of Science in chemistry from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. As a post-doc in the Sharpless lab at The Scripps Research Institute, Seva was one of the co-inventors of copper-catalyzed Click Chemistry, which won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Andrew D. Sandifer was named executive vice president and chief financial officer in May 2018. Andrew joined FMC in 2010 as vice president, Strategic Development, with overall responsibility for all Mergers and Acquisitions and Strategic Planning activities. He was named vice president, Corporate Transformation in 2014 and led several efforts to transform FMC’s portfolio, including leading the enterprise-wide integration of Cheminova A/S, a global agricultural chemical company acquired by FMC, until being named Treasurer in 2016.

Before joining FMC, Andrew was vice president, Strategic Initiatives, for ARAMARK Corporation. Prior to ARAMARK, he spent seven years with Rohm and Haas Company, now part of The Dow Chemical Company, where he held roles in Strategic Planning, Sales, Marketing, Investor Relations, and General Management. Earlier in his career Andrew spent five years with the Boston Consulting Group and held engineering, operations and technical roles with International Paper and James River Paper companies.

Andrew earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech, and received his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Andrew serves on the Board of Directors for Koppers Holdings Inc., as well as on the Board of Trustees of Germantown Academy, where he is a member of the Finance, Audit, and Investment Committees. 

Jacqueline (Jackie) Scanlan joined FMC as executive vice president and chief human resources officer in September 2023.

Jackie has more than 25 years of experience in HR management, including senior leadership roles at companies including Axalta Coating Systems, Haemonetics Corporation, Novo Nordisk and Campbell Soup Company. Her career has covered the spectrum of HR disciplines, with significant focus in areas including change and talent management, leadership development, organization culture and functional HR excellence. In addition to leading the global Human Resources organization, Jackie oversees the global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) strategy and team.

She received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from St. Joseph’s University and a Master of Science in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania.