{"id":9649,"date":"2015-03-03T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T15:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=9649"},"modified":"2015-03-03T10:07:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T16:07:11","slug":"agribusiness-leader-of-the-year-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=9649","title":{"rendered":"Agribusiness Leader of the Year Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"clinton<\/a>NAMA Honors Clint Lewis, Zoetis, with 2015 Agribusiness Leader of the Year Award<\/strong><\/p>\n

The National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) has named Clint Lewis, Executive Vice President and President, U.S. Operations, Zoetis, as the 2015 Agribusiness Leader of the Year.<\/p>\n

This award, which is NAMA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s highest honor, recognizes outstanding leadership in private, public or academic service and is conferred each year to a senior agribusiness executive who not only exemplifies excellence in agribusiness but has also made significant contributions to the industry. Now in its 15th<\/sup> year, the award will be presented at the Opening General Session of the 2015 Agri-Marketing Conference, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Growing Greatness,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d April 16, 2015, in Kansas City, Mo.<\/p>\n

Zoetis is the world’s largest animal health company, established when Pfizer announced that its animal health business would become an independent company. Mr. Lewis helped launch the entity and now oversees the management of the livestock (cattle, pork, and poultry) and companion animal (small animal and equine) businesses in the United States and is also responsible for leading the global genetics business.<\/p>\n

Mr. Lewis has helped to spearhead Zoetis’ ongoing commitment to support and help advance the veterinarian and livestock producer profession to continuously raise the bar on animal health. Through funding student scholarships, internships, research fellowships and professional continuing education workshops, Zoetis does more to support the veterinarian and producer profession in the U.S. than any other company.<\/p>\n

One example of this is the innovative\u00c2\u00a0Commitment to Veterinarians platform\u00e2\u20ac\u201da far-reaching, multi-dimensional strategy to address challenges facing\u00c2\u00a0the veterinary profession and help ensure its vibrant\u00c2\u00a0future\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich was launched in 2010\u00c2\u00a0under Mr. Lewis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 leadership. Today,\u00c2\u00a0under the auspices of the Commitment to Veterinarians\u00c2\u00a0platform, Zoetis donates millions of dollars and countless hours to supporting the profession.\u00c2\u00a0The Zoetis\u00c2\u00a0Commitment to Veterinarians Facebook\u00c2\u00a0community\u00c2\u00a0now boasts\u00c2\u00a0170,000 engaged users\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe largest such online community of veterinarians, technicians and allied\u00c2\u00a0audiences in the country.\u00c2\u00a0In addition, Zoetis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 widely popular \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Veterinarians on Call\u00e2\u20ac\u009d series on YouTube, designed to educate consumers on the important role of vets through a reality-TV approach, boasts more than 4.4 million views and 3,600\u00c2\u00a0subscribers. The series also has a substantial role in educating consumers who are increasingly curious about how their food is produced.<\/p>\n

Mr. Lewis has been at the forefront of advancing diversity in the veterinary and animal health professions, specifically in educating the next generation of veterinarians. For six consecutive years, Zoetis has invited second- and third-year students of veterinary medicine to apply for the Zoetis Veterinary Student Scholarship Program. Since the launch of the scholarship program in the fall of 2010, more than $2.7 million in scholarship funding has been awarded to more than 1,100 exceptional veterinary students.<\/p>\n

As a member of Zoetis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Executive Committee and immediate past chair of the Board of Directors for the Animal Health Institute (AHI), Mr. Lewis has played a key role in helping to advance legislation to support both veterinarian and livestock producer groups and to ensure support for animal care. A member of AHI since 2007, Mr. Lewis previously served as AHI\u00c2\u00a0 chair for the 20011-2012 term. AHI is the trade association for the animal health industry in the U.S., advocating on various issues important to the industry, including efficient and effective regulatory and approval processes by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).<\/p>\n

Prior to his current position, Mr. Lewis served as president, U.S. Operations in the Pfizer Animal Health organization. He joined Pfizer Animal Health in 2007 after nearly 20 years in Pfizer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s human health operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAMA Honors Clint Lewis, Zoetis, with 2015 Agribusiness Leader of the Year Award The National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) has named Clint Lewis, Executive Vice President and President, U.S. Operations, Zoetis, as the 2015 Agribusiness Leader of the Year. This award, which is NAMA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s highest honor, recognizes outstanding leadership in private, public or academic service and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9721,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649\/revisions\/9721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}