Wayne Brownlee

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer- PotashCorp

As the head of PotashCorp's expansion and development efforts in the 1990s, Wayne Brownlee was instrumental in the acquisition of more than US$ 4 billion in assets. The company now has the world's largest integrated production capacity for the three primary nutrients.

Mr. Brownlee was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PotashCorp in 2006 after serving as Senior Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer since 1999. Prior to that, he held the titles of Senior Vice President, Expansion and Development, Vice President, Expansion and Development and Director, Business Development. He also coordinated the privatization of PotashCorp in 1988, which transformed the company from a provincial Crown corporation to a publicly traded entity.

Before joining PotashCorp, Mr. Brownlee served in the Department of Finance for the Government of Saskatchewan, including three years as Associate Deputy Minister of the Treasury Board Division. He earned a bachelor's degree in Science and a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Saskatchewan.

Mr. Brownlee is a director of Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile, the world's largest potassium nitrate and iodine producer, with operations in Chile, and in which PotashCorp owns a 32 percent equity interest. He is also a director of Great Western Brewing Company.

Brownlee's Potash Corp. impishly called the 2007 proxy circular that details executive pay "Enriching Food, Enriching Life," but forgot to add "Enriching Executives' Lives." Brownlee's $521,586 salary represented 3.7% of his total payout after options and bonuses last year.
Not to be confused with... The low-to-no-profile Potash Corp. executive shares his name with former Ottawa fire chief Wayne Brownlee, who would have made a paltry $151,252 last year were he still on the job.