Mark Palmquist

Mr Palmquist has over 40 years experience in food processing and agricultural sectors and has held a number of senior leadership roles prior to commencing his role at United Malt. Mr Palmquist is focused on building a sustainable business aligned to meeting the needs of our customers in each of our markets, whilst ensuring strong governance, risk management and continued innovation. Prior to his role at United Malt, Mr Palmquist was the Managing Director and CEO of GrainCorp Limited from 2014 until 2020, which demerged its malt business that is now United Malt. Prior to this, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Ag Business, for CHS Inc., a leading global agribusiness, diversified in energy, grains, and food. He has held a variety of global leadership roles for a broad range of CHS agricultural inputs and marketing areas, retail businesses, and grain based food and food ingredients operations. ingredients operations. Mr Palmquist is a former director of Telesense, Inc (from September 2020 until August 2022) and is a former director of GrainCorp Limited (from October 2014 until March 2020).