Vila, who has 20 years of experience in the agribusiness sector, was previously sales director for Adama Romania.
Adama Ltd, the group which includes the company in Romania, is one of the leading global manufacturer and worldwide distributor of crop protection solutions, with more than 7,000 employees and operations in over 100 countries.
Adama started from two Israeli crop protection companies, Makhteshim and Agan, that were established in 1952 and 1945 respectively, and then merged in 1997 to form Makhteshim Agan.
In 2011, Adama became part of the ChemChina Group (the China National Chemical Corporation), one of the largest corporations in Asia, with sales of over $58 billion and 140,000 employees. In January 2020, Adama became part of the Syngenta Group and part of the ChemChina group, created through the bringing together of the agricultural businesses of ChemChina and Sinochem.