Grain Foods Foundation names Christine Cochran executive director
The Grain Foods Foundation, Ridgway, Colo., names Christine Cochran executive director. Currently president of the Commodity Markets Council (CMC), Washington, D.C., Cochran has managed high-profile public relations campaigns pertaining to commodity market issues and represented commodity related businesses in grain, energy, metals and livestock. Cochran succeeds Judi Adams at the helm of GFF.
“The Grain Foods Foundation is very excited to bring on board an incredibly bright, talented and dynamic leader to aggressively promote the nutritional benefits of grain foods to key influencer communities. Ms. Cochran has the management style and skills to lead GFF in this challenging environment,” says GFF co-chair Breck Barton of Cereal Food Processors. “From her family’s wheat farm in Kansas to her agriculture economics degree from the University of Missouri, connections in the industry and as a working mom, Ms. Cochran brings a host of excellent qualifications to this important leadership role.”