N.C. Sweet Potato Commission's new executive director
N.C. Sweet Potato Commission's new executive director
Kelly McIver has been named the executive director of the North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission, following the retirement announcement earlier this year by longtime director Sue (Sweet Sue) Johnson-Langdon. McIver comes over from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, where she assisted the NCSPC and other state agriculture groups in opening and developing export markets around the world.
Kelly McIver
Johnson-Langdon joined the commission as executive director in 1995. "It is somewhat difficult to leave this wonderful position I have enjoyed for many years,” she said in a press release, "but I am confident that Kelly will carry the ‘sweet potato torch’ to greater successes for the N.C. sweet potato growers.”
McIver has been working with NCSPC in her role in the NCDA&CS’ international marketing department for the past five years, which included market development trips across Europe, Canada and Israel. "I am excited to be working full time with the growers and shippers of sweet potatoes whom I have come to know through my work at NCDA&CS, and build upon the foundation of success that Sue has established,” she said in the release.