Trimble Announces CFO, 2 Other Execs to Leave

Nov 02, 2023

Trimble announced on Nov. 1 during its third quarter fiscal 2023 earnings call that Chief Financial Officer David Barnes will retire from the company in May 2024. The company has named Phil Sawarynski, vice president of treasury, corporate development and co-lead of Trimble Ventures, its new CFO effective May 2024.

In an SEC filing on the same day, Trimble stated Darryl R. Matthews, current senior vice president of the company’s natural resources businesses was leaving "as a result of the Company’s previously announced joint venture with AGCO Corporation and contribution of the Company’s precision agriculture business, subject to certain exceptions, to the joint venture."

Trimble also stated in the SEC filing that its Chief Platform Officer Jennifer K. Lin, who oversees the Company’s cloud platform strategy was leaving the company at the end of the year. "Ms. Lin’s position and responsibilities will be reabsorbed by the Company’s business segments," the filing said. It did not state specifically if Lin's departure was also a result of the joint venture with AGCO.

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Most of us spend our time managing what we can see above ground—plant height, leaf color, stand counts, and yield potential. But the deeper you dig into agronomy, the more you realize that some of the most important processes driving crop performance are happening just millimeters below the surface.

In this episode of Field Talk Friday, Dr. John Murphy continues the soil biology series by diving into one of the most fascinating topics in modern agronomy: root exudates and the role they play in shaping the microbial world around plant roots.

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