Adam Holton Email Address

CHS is an agribusiness that supplies energy,crop nutrients and other business solutions for farming.

Adam graduated from the United States Naval Academy and served in the United States Marine Corps as an Infantry Officer. He was first stationed at Camp Pendleton, California, in the First Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, and then at Quantico, Virginia as a leadership and tactics instructor. After leaving the Marine Corps, Adam became a high school basketball coach and teacher in Charlottesville, Virginia. In 2000, he joined GE Medical Systems as a Six Sigma Black Belt and led process improvement, followed by an L&D role on the Customer Education team at the Jack Welch Leadership Development Center in Crotonville, NY. After leaving GE, he joined Bank One/JP Morgan Chase as the Manager of Executive Education. In 2004, he deployed with a Marine Corps reserve Infantry Battalion as a Company Commander to Lutafiyah, Iraq, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, as a part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is writing a book about those he served with that can be accessed for free at https://adamholton.wordpress.com. Shortly after returning from Iraq, Adam rejoined GE Healthcare and over the next several years took on progressively larger HR leadership roles. As well, he served as a Co-leader for the GE Veterans Network, HR executive sponsor for the African-American Forum and as the leader of the HR Leadership Program for GE Healthcare. In 2014, Adam became the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) at CHS, a Fortune 100, farmer-owned cooperative working to help America’s farmers be more successful. Subsequent to that, he joined the HR team at USAA, an association with a singular mission & purpose – to facilitate the financial security of its members, associates and their families. In 2019, he became the CHRO of Numotion, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with disabilities through mobility and independence.