Florian leads a global team that creates value for Cargill and its customers via research, application and product development, and technical service support across agriculture, food, animal feed and bio-industrial markets. Prior to Cargill, he held leadership roles at Dow, SulphCo and GE, driving innovation and R&D across a diverse range of markets, businesses and technologies. Florian earned a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Diplom Chemiker degree from the Technische Universit't M'nchen in Munich, Germany.