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FLM+ NAMES JOAN OLSON, BOB WILHELM VICE PRESIDENTS
Aug. 14, 2013
Source: FLM+ news release
FLM+, a strategic marketing and communications company, announces the promotion of Joan Olson to vice president and the addition of Bob Wilhelm to the team as a full time team member and vice president. Both will serve on the company's leadership team.
"We are delighted with these two announcements," says Rob McClelland, president and CEO. "Joan is one of the most respected and accomplished PR professionals in the industry and Bob joins us with not only communications firm leadership experience, but also a wide variety of relevant results-oriented strategic counsel experience."
Olson has 20-plus years of award-winning editorial, public relations and marketing communications experience with leading agricultural publications, companies and agencies. She has served many of the industry's top agriculture clients including Cargill Animal Nutrition, Syngenta, the Minnesota Agri-Growth Council, the Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion Council, SFP, Environmental Tillage Systems and AgriBank.
She has extensive experience writing about livestock, crops and farm business issues for both national and regional trade media. Earlier in her career, Joan was a farm management editor for Successful Farming magazine. She joined the FLM+ Minneapolis office in 2012 and is a graduate of the University of Minnesota.
Bob Wilhelm has consulted with FLM+ and its clients since February and is joining FLM+ as a full time team member based out of the agency's St. Louis office. He has over 25 years of marketing, communications and branding experience, including over 15 spent working with top agriculture marketing brands and companies, such as Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences, Bayer CropScience, USDA Rural Development, Rabo AgriFinance, Merck Animal Health/Intervet/Schering-Plough, Asgrow, DeKalb, Roundup and Roundup Ready brands and others.
In addition to hands-on work with clients and in the agriculture industry, Bob has been on the leadership teams for two major agricultural communication agencies and a national ag lender.
Bob is a graduate of the Journalism School at the University of Missouri. He served in national committee leadership roles for the National Agri-Marketing Association. He was a member of the 2004 AAAA Executive Leadership Forum; is a member of the St. Louis Agri-Business Club; and is a vice-president/board member of St. Louis Landmarks, a historical preservation group.
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