Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> April 14, 2003
J. BERRYE WORSHAM is President and Chief Executive Officer of
Cotton Incorporated, the research and marketing company
representing US upland cotton producers and importers. Mr.
Worsham oversees the company's global research and marketing
programs. These efforts are conducted through Cotton
Incorporated's world headquarters and research and development
center in Cary, NC; the company's consumer marketing office in
New York; as well as offices in Los Angeles; Osaka, Japan;
Singapore; Mexico City; and Shanghai, China. Mr. Worsham, who
joined Cotton Incorporated in 1983, previously served as
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He has also
served as Vice President, Corporate Planning and Program
Development, where he developed the company's five-year strategic
plan; director, market research; director, fiber and economic
analysis; and manager, cotton analysis. Before joining Cotton
Incorporated, Mr. Worsham was Senior Business Analyst of JI Case
Company, Racine, Wisconsin. Mr. Worsham is a member of the
Advisory Board for the Department of Textile Products Design and
Marketing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
School of Human Environmental Sciences. He is also a member of
the Board of Directors of Textile/Clothing Technology Corporation
in Cary as well as the Cary Chamber of Commerce. A 1978 graduate
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Mr. Worsham
received his MBA, with concentration in Quantitative Analysis and
Economics, from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in
1979. Profile
Incorporated and a short history of the company?
Mr. Worsham: We were created as a result of legislation back in
1966 called the Cotton
