Patterson Companies adds new board members

Patterson Companies has elected two new members to its board of directors.

The addition of Neil Schrimsher, president and chief executive officer of Applied Industrial Technologies, and Sarena Lin, corporate vice president of strategy and business development for Cargill, increases the board's size to 10 members.

Since fall 2011, Schrimsher has been president and chief executive officer of Cleveland-based Applied Industrial Technologies, one of North America's largest industrial parts distributors. Previously, Schrimsher was executive vice president of Cooper Industries, a global electrical products manufacturer, where he led multiple businesses in Cooper's Electrical Products Group and headed numerous domestic and international growth initiatives.

Lin has been with global food producer Cargill for almost three years. Prior to joining Cargill, she was a principal at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, where she was the co-founder of the McKinsey Asia Center, a special initiative to support the company's globalization efforts for Asian and Western clients.