CSI promotes Griffin to business director, pest control division

Paul Griffin

Pasadena, Texas-based Control Solutions Inc. (CSI) has promoted Paul Griffin to business director of its pest control division.

Griffin has more than 20 years of industry experience, the last 10 of which have been with CSI. Most recently, he was the key account manager for the pest control product manufacturer.

“Paul has been highly involved in all the key account business and integral with all business activities for many years which makes him the perfect fit for this position,” CSI Executive VP Curtis Clark said in a news release. “Paul’s strong sales ability and dedication to customer service will make him an outstanding leader for the team.”

ABOUT CSI

Control Solutions Inc. (CSI) is a mid-sized, U.S.-based specialty chemical manufacturer with a longstanding tradition of providing effective and economical solutions to pest management professionals.

For more than 20 years, CSI has been a leader in the development of sustainable pest control formulations, with a wide array of active ingredients. According to its website, CSI is one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry. As one of the 40 subsidiaries that make up ADAMA, the fifth-largest agricultural chemical company in the world, CSI is able to not only offer a large selection of products, but also introduce such innovations as Combination Chemistry, Pressurized Solutions and Encapsulated Solutions.

The company can actually trace its roots to 1958, when President and CEO Mark Boyd’s father, Richard, purchased a small pest control company in Pasadena, Texas, and founded Ford’s Pest Control. By 1960, Richard Boyd launched Ford’s Chemical to formulate and sell pest control solutions to colleagues and the public. In 1976, he merged the two businesses into Ford’s Chemical and Service. Read more about the history in Pest Management Professional’s anniversary coverage in its July 2018 issue here.