Alliance One International, Inc. Announces Executive Changes
September 10, 2018 at 01:00 pm
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Alliance One International, Inc. announced details of its new organizational structure designed to support its diversified business lines by
fostering greater collaboration and efficiency. The new structure will become effective on September 12, 2018. Alliance One International, Inc., which will become Pyxus International, Inc., on September 12, 2018, will primarily be a holding company and will be led by Pieter Sikkel, President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Finance will be led by Joel Thomas, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer; Legal Services will be led by William O'Quinn, Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary; Business Services will be led by Tracy Purvis, Senior Vice President, Business Services; and, Human Resources will be led by Laura Jones, Senior Vice President, Human Resources. The Company's Global Specialty Products division, which includes the Company's investments in the e-liquids, industrial hemp and legal cannabis space, will continue to be led by Bryan Mazur. In this role, Mazur will oversee the new business lines, which will have requisite autonomy to drive innovation and continue to disrupt these fast-growing categories and diverse consumer markets. Strohschoen previously served as Regional Director for the Company's South American region and brings extensive operational and sales experience to the role as the tobacco division continues to optimize its global footprint and capitalizes on opportunities to meet the evolving needs of tobacco product manufacturers. Graham Kayes, who has served as Executive Vice President, Global Business Relationship Management and Leaf, will retain his current role with Alliance One, reporting directly to
Strohschoen. In addition, Pyxus is deepening its roots in agronomic services through the development of a value-added agricultural products division, which will focus on expanding the Company's footprint into additional crops. This division will be led by Jose Maria Costa, shifting from his role as Executive Vice President - Global Operations and Supply Chain.
Pyxus International, Inc. is an agricultural company. The Company is a provider of sustainable and traceable products and ingredients. The Company operates through its Leaf segment. Its core business includes tobacco leaf merchant business, purchasing, processing, packing, storing and shipping tobacco to manufacturers of cigarettes and other consumer tobacco products around the world. Its leaf tobacco operations deal primarily in flue-cured, burley, and oriental tobaccos that are used in international cigarette brands. It processes tobacco in Company-owned and third-party facilities around the world, including in Argentina, Brazil, China, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Macedonia, Malawi, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United States, and Zimbabwe. Throughout the entire production process, from seed through processing and final shipment, its SENTRI traceability platform provides clear visibility into how products are produced throughout the supply chain, supporting product integrity.
PYXUS INTERNATIONAL, INC. 
