The American Soybean Association is announcing that Melanie Fitzpatrick will join its senior management team on Jan. 3. Fitzpatrick, who most recently worked as vice president of The Center for Food Integrity and Look East Public Relations, will fill the vacancy of Bill Schuermann, who retired in December 2022 after 15 years of serving soy in the role.
At CFI, Fitzpatrick led strategic oversight for a variety of food and agriculture accounts including livestock genetics, crop input manufacturing, life sciences companies, food retail, national food service chains, agriculture finance, global livestock and poultry entities, row crop organizations and more.