Our Leadership Team

Our core values – integrity, quality, commitment, and innovation – provide an enduring foundation for our success. Our leadership team ensures these values remain vital and relevant, helping guide our employees in the way they do their jobs and the way we treat our customers and each other.

Company Leaders

The John Deere leadership team stands at corporate headquarters with a tractor in the background

The Quality of a Company is Expressed Through the Quality of its Leadership

For more than 180 years, John Deere has benefitted from strong, decisive leaders who are dedicated to the company's core values.

Deere’s senior management team shown at company headquarters in Moline, Illinois. From left: John May, Marc Howze, James Field, Mark von Pentz, Sam Allen, Rajesh Kalathur, Cory Reed, and Mary Jones.

Company Leaders

Samuel R. Allen

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

James M. Field

President, Worldwide Construction & Forestry Division and Power Systems

Marc A. Howze

Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer

Mary K. W. Jones

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Public Affairs

Rajesh Kalathur

Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer

John C. May

President, Worldwide Agriculture & Turf Division: Americas and Australia, Global Harvesting and Turf Platforms, and Ag Solutions

Cory J. Reed

President, John Deere Financial

Mark von Pentz

President, Worldwide Agriculture & Turf Division: Europe, CIS, Asia, and Africa, Global Tractor and Hay & Forage Platforms, and Advanced Engineering

Dedicated to Providing Long-Term Value

Guiding the company leadership to do business the right way, as it has for nearly 200 years.

Deere & Company board of directors shown at company headquarters in Moline, Illinois. From left: Michael Johanns, Alan Heuberger, Charles Holliday, Sheila Talton, Clayton Jones, Samuel Allen, Vance Coffman, Sherry Smith, Gregory Page, Dmitri Stockton, and Dipak Jain.

Board of Directors

Samuel R. Allen

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Deere & Company

Vance D. Coffman

Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Alan C. Heuberger

Senior Manager, BMGI

Charles O. (Chad) Holliday, Jr.

Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc.

Dipak C. Jain

Co-President and Global Advisor, China Europe International Business School

Michael O. Johanns

Retired United States Senator from Nebraska and former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture

Clayton M. Jones

Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Rockwell Collins, Inc.

Gregory R. Page

Retired Executive Director, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Cargill, Inc.

Sherry M. Smith

Former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Supervalu Inc.

Dmitri L. Stockton

Retired Special Advisor to Chairman and Retired Senior Vice President, General Electric Company Former Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of GE Asset Management

Sheila G. Talton

President and Chief Executive Officer, Gray Matter Analytics