Scott Ainslie 

About Scott 

Scott Ainslie is senior vice president for Cargill’s Animal Nutrition & Health (ANH) business with responsibility for South and Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, India and other adjacent markets. 

Before assuming this new role on June 1st, 2023, he was a regional managing director and vice president for Cargill Animal Nutrition, covering Mexico, Central America, South America and India and at the same time leading Cargill Digital Solutions (CDS), which develops and commercializes digital products for the animal nutrition and health industry.

Scott has been with Cargill since 1996, starting as a business development manager for one of the company’s largest North American animal nutrition product lines. He was also on the core team that led Cargill’s global acquisition and integration of Provimi and EWOS.  During this process, he led the launch of Strategic Marketing and Technology, a new enterprise-wide function responsible for global strategy, research & development and technology application. Over the years, Scott’s career with Cargill includes leadership positions in the U.S., Latin America, India and Southeast Asia.  

Outside of Cargill, he has served as a board member and finance committee member for Resource Exchange International, or REI, a non-profit focused on building education, business, and leadership capacity in emerging economies.   

Scott holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science from Cornell University, in addition to a Master of Business Administration from Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. 

Scott is married and has three children. He and his wife live in Bangkok, Thailand.