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Retiring Silbermann hits the right tune

Produce Marketing Association names new award after outgoing CEO Silbermann If you had asked Bryan Silbermann in the early 1980s what he planned to do with his life, "advocate for fresh produce" wouldn't have crossed his mind. Silbermann grew up in Durban, South Africa, where he played in a symphony orchestra at age 12. He would later earn graduate degrees in international relations from both the University of Chicago and Oxford University in the U.K. He was working as an international business analyst at a research firm in Arlington, Va., in 1983 when the company went belly up. Suddenly Silbermann needed work, and that's when he saw an advertisement for a job opening at… Read More