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 president of FMC North America, effective August 1, 2025. From May 2024 until his appointment as president of FMC North America, he previously served as executive vice president and chief marketing officer. 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, vice president of investor relations and corporate development, and executive vice president and chief marketing officer. 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 named executive vice president, Integrated Supply Chain in 2024. In this role she oversees Global Manufacturing, Logistics, Supply Chain, Facilities, Procurement, Sustainability, and Environment, Health & Safety. 

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, Logistics, and Global Facilities functions 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.

Sara Ponessa was named executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary in June 2025.  She first joined FMC in 2012 as senior business counsel to the Alkali, Peroxygens, and Lithium divisions, and multiple corporate functions. In 2018, she was appointed as the first general counsel and secretary of Livent, managing the company’s initial public offering and its 2019 spinoff from FMC. At Livent, Sara oversaw the successful merger between Livent and Allkem which created Arcadium Lithium, where she served as general counsel and secretary.

Prior to FMC, Sara held senior counsel positions for AstraZeneca and Wilmington Trust. She also served as Wilmington Trust’s vice president, risk management and compliance section manager. Earlier in her career, she practiced corporate law at Saul Ewing and was a judicial clerk for the New Jersey Supreme Court. 

She earned two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and Spanish from Rutgers College and her juris doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she served as a senior editor of the Penn Law Review.

Sara is a member of the Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia. 

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 is a member of the Board of Directors of Koppers Holdings Inc., where he serves as Audit Committee Chair, and is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Germantown Academy.

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. 

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.