Dr. Dhamu Thamodaran, PhD

Dr. Dhamu Thamodaran, PhD was appointed as a director of StoneX Group Inc. on October 1, 2021. He retired as Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Commodity Hedging Officer from Smithfield Foods, Inc. in December 2020, having served in this role since 2016. Dr. Thamodaran joined Smithfield Foods in 1995 as Director of Price Risk Management. Prior to joining Smithfield Foods, he had related industry experience with John Morrell Food Group and Farmland Foods, which later became part of the Smithfield Foods family. Dr. Thamodaran earned his PhD in agricultural economics, summa cum laude, from Iowa State University in 1983, and his master’s degree in agricultural economics and statistics in 1980 from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute.