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Chad Gauger

2021-2022

Chad Gauger HeadshotChad Gauger joined the Scoular company in the fall of 2021 as the general manager of their High Nutritional Value Protein business unit.  Prior to that Chad was the Chief Transformation officer at Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain North America. He led a $200M annual transformation effort for 3,000 employees across multiple geographies and product lines. Before being named Chief Transformation Officer in October of 2018, Chad served Cargill in several Managing Director roles in Thailand, Norway, Indonesia and Minnesota. As the inaugural Managing Director for Cargill Aquaculture Nutrition in Asia South (18 factories across 6 countries), he worked to build a diverse regional leadership team representing 5 nationalities and a 50/50 gender balance. As the Deputy Managing Director for Cargill Animal Nutrition in Jakarta, Indonesia, they achieved a record revenue of $300M/year while also achieving Zero Accidents.

Chad is a graduate of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois and earned an MBA and a Masters of Science in Finance from Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.