Leadership Team

Barry Sanders

Executive Vice President, Global Consumer

Barry is executive vice president of the Global Consumer business unit, responsible for the Company’s worldwide consumer brands and products, which primarily include Scotts®, Miracle-Gro®, Ortho®, consumer Roundup® in the U.S. and Miracle-Gro®, Evergreen®, Levington®, Fertiligene®, Celaflor®, Substral® and consumer Roundup® in Europe.

In this position, he has overall global leadership for more than 7,000 associates in marketing, sales, research and development, supply chain and information technology.

Before this appointment in 2010, Barry was executive vice president of the North America Consumer and lawn service businesses, a position he held since September 2007.

Barry joined ScottsMiracle-Gro in 2001 as senior vice president in charge of Global Business Improvement. He later held leadership positions in Sales and Supply Chain for the North America consumer business and as head of Global Technologies & Operations.

Prior to ScottsMiracle-Gro, Barry was with the former Ernst & Young consulting organization for 10 years, specializing in operations management.

He has a bachelor's degree in business from Bowling Green State University (Ohio) and an MBA from the University of Dayton (Ohio).