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James C. Collins, Jr. is vice president and general manager - DuPont Crop Protection. He began his career in 1984 in DuPont Manufacturing.
He had various assignments at the Memphis, Savannah River, Charlotte, and Mobile plants in engineering, supervision, and business management. In 1993, Mr. Collins moved to Wilmington, Del., working in the Ag Sales & Marketing Group as a product manager, a distribution project leader, and as the farmer offering manager. In 1997, he moved to Belle, W.Va., where he served as site manager for the Crop Protection Products production facilities.
In 1999, he moved to St. Louis where he was involved in the DuPont acquisition of Protein Technologies International (PTI) and Pioneer Hi-Bred International. He held positions as director, identity preservation programs and director, Meat/Food - Industry Management. He returned to Crop Protection as director - Specialty Grains Programs where he worked for the overall Ag Enterprise responsible for Identity Preserved Grain projects and helping to develop future value added grain contracting.
Mr. Collins transferred to Hong Kong as the regional business director - Asia Pacific for DuPont Crop Protection and Pioneer and brought all of the elements of the seed and Crop Protection businesses together to support production agriculture in the Asia Pacific Region. He was named global sales director for Crop Protection in November 2002. He was named to his current position in January 2004.
He serves on CropLife International's Crop Protection Strategy Council.
Born in 1962, Mr. Collins studied at Christian Brothers College in Memphis, Tenn., and received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering. He also received his MBA from the University of Delaware in Marketing with a focus on International Business. | 