CMI Orchards is proud to announce it has made several leadership changes.
- Joel Hewitt has moved from domestic sales and organic manager to vice president of sales. Hewitt is leading and managing the sales team and execution overall to drive sales growth and achieve organizational goals, all while collaborating closely with other departments to ensure a strategy that remains cohesive.
Left to right: Joel Hewitt, Garrett Joeckel, Wade Baker.
- Garrett Joeckel is vice president of operations, overseeing operational activities supporting the sales, marketing and accounting departments. Joeckel started at CMI in 2014, primarily focusing on production, and expanded his scope of work to include sales reporting, analytics and account management.
- CMI’s new production manager, Wade Baker, joined CMI in 2022 with almost 30 years of industry experience in warehousing, including leadership roles in production planning, quality control, inventory management and logistics.
Left to right: Loren Foss, Scott Agnew, Steve Reinholt.
- Loren Foss is now vice president of domestic business strategy. Foss will work closely with marketing and sales to coordinate between global brand owners, sales teams and warehouses to ensure effective management. Foss graduated from Washington State University and spent 15 years in the produce industry, with the first half of his career focused on export sales in Asia and the Middle East before eventually moving to manage the sales side of branded varieties for CMI.
- Scott Agnew is now senior director of international sales. Agnew will focus on the company’s international business across both import and export channels, overseeing sales goals and execution. Agnew started working in an apple packing warehouse in the ‘90s and said he was mentored by some of the finest people in the industry for eight years, taught himself Spanish, and learned everything he could before an opportunity to work at CMI arose.
- Steve Reinholt will focus on export business development, working closely with Agnew and the export team to continue developing business in new and existing export markets. Reinholt received his Business Administration degree at Central before running his family’s farming operations for three years; his career evolved into warehouses, then sales, eventually joining Starr Ranch as the export sales manager in 2004.
Left to right: Steve Castleman, Robb Myers.
- Steve Castleman, now senior director of strategy, has been with CMI for 25 years, with his time split between domestic sales and vice president of sales.
- Robb Myers is now senior director of business development. Myers will work closely with the executive team to shape the company’s growth trajectory, as well as research and develop new market opportunities and increase market presence.
For more information:
Ashlyn Lewis
CMI Orchards, LLC
Tel: +1 (509) 888-3434 (office) ext. 112
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www.cmiorchards.com