Frank G. Day, Hershey Co. vice president of Global Commodities, won election as president of the Sugar Club, an international sugar forum headquartered in New York City.
Day, a graduate of the University of Missouri and Georgia State University, joined Hershey in 1988 as a commodity analyst and manager of crop survey operations in West Africa and Brazil.
Prior to joining Hershey, Day was a senior sweetener buyer for Coca-Cola USA and a Trading Manager for Cargill Investor Services.
Day is a member of the ICE Futures Exchange and serves on both the Cocoa and Regulatory Compliance committees. He also serves on USDA'S Agricultural Trade Development Advisory Board.
Other elected officers of the Sugar Club are Vice Presidents Jeff Dobrydney, Jenkins Sugar Group; Sue Kharouba, Louis Dreyfus Commodities LLC; and Pedro Figueroa, ED&F Man Sugar; Secretary Rick Pasco, Sweetener Users Association; and Treasurer Robert Vorsanger.