Meet Our
Floratine Management Team
Kevin Cavanaugh
NORTHWEST U.S. / CANADA / EUROPE
A former Class A Superintendent with the GCSAA, Kevin interned at Augusta National Golf Club before furthering his career at Indian Creek Country Club, Card Sound Golf Club and The Plantation at Ponte Vedra. While the superintendent at The Plantation, Kevin was asked to join Palmer Course Design Company as a grow-in consultant for the company’s many rebuild and renovation projects. Through that experience and due to Kevin’s familiarity with Floratine’s product line, he decided upon a career with Floratine as a corporate agronomist and is now a co-owner and President & CEO of Floratine Products Group, Inc.
Mike Cavanaugh
Mike Cavanaugh is the Executive Vice President and Co-Owner of Floratine Products Group, headquartered in Collierville, TN. Mike is a former Marine Captain and attack helicopter pilot. After leaving the Marines, Mike worked in various roles in the pharmaceutical industry for ten years to include sales and marketing for Abbott Labs in Chicago. Moving back to his current home of Newtown, PA, he helped start a new biotech company, OraPharma, and served as Executive Director of Marketing. OraPharma was purchased by Johnson and Johnson four years later. Post-acquisition, he served with J&J as National Sales Director until 2007. In 2007, he and his brother, Kevin, bought Floratine Products Group with a private equity partner. He has a B.S. in Business from Penn State and M.B.A. from New York University, Stern School of Business. He is married and resides in Charlotte, NC.
Tim Cartwright
EUROPE / JAPAN
Tim joined Floratine in November 1999 as a chemist responsible for quality assurance, new product development and operations management. He currently serves as Vice President, Technical Services. Tim was instrumental in developing some of Floratine’s most popular products including ProteSyn®, Trical®, Turgor®, Floradox® Pro, Propel and Free 15. In addition to Tim’s product-development duties, he evaluates data and sets up correlations, and he wrote the programming of the first version of Ana-Lync™, which has proved to be an extremely valuable tool for turf managers in the evaluation of their soil and water.
Kory Wheeler
A former potato, hay, grain, and cattle producer in Idaho. Kory has worked in most levels of the crop input industry over his 25-year career and loves figuring out how to make things flourish. After college, Kory worked as a Crop Advisor with growers in Idaho and Oregon. He then moved to Washington State and worked for Zeneca/Syngenta as a Territory Lead. Kory then went to work for Gowan Company as a Global Product Manager. In 2010, Kory took the position of Nutritional Products Specialist for the Western Business Unit of Helena Chemical Company which evolved into the role of Strategic Account Manager (SAM). Kory was then asked to move to the California Desert to manage the Brawley, CA Branch and later Yuma, AZ which saw great success in his tenure. Kory joined the Floratine team in 2017 in his current role. Kory speaks Portuguese. He has a B.S. in Business and Agribusiness from Utah State University and an M.B.A. from Boise State University. Kory and his wife Krysten currently reside in Kaysville, UT, and together have 9 children.
Pat McHugh
SOUTHEAST U.S. / EUROPE / AUSTRALIA / SOUTHEAST ASIA
Pat became a part of the Floratine team in December of 2015. Having worked for the PGA, he maintained the position of CGCS for over 28 years and managed a variety of courses throughout his career. Pat is widely recognized as an expert in the golf course industry. As Corporate Agronomist for the Southeast U.S. region, Pat is responsible for evaluating customers’ turfgrass and soil conditions to help them develop customized nutrition programs that best fit their specific needs.
Todd Gilmour
SOUTHWEST U.S.
Todd is a former golf course superintendent who has worked on projects across the world. He was an assistant at Gleneagles Resort in Scotland, where he oversaw bunker and tee renovations as well as helped install coursewide irrigation. Todd was also the grow-in superintendent for Nanea Golf Club on the Big Island of Hawaii, where he studied different grass selections and helped lead the grow-in of the 18-hole facility, and he spent time as the superintendent of Stonebridge Meadows in Fayetteville, AR. Todd currently owns and operates Turf Care of Texas and Arkansas Turf Support, which provide consultation and materials to sports fields and golf courses throughout both states.
Paul Dugmore
AUSTRALIA / SOUTHEAST ASIA
Paul currently serves as Floratine’s Business Development Manager for the Asia/Pacific region. He got his start in the Australian turf industry at South Lakes GC before a four-year apprenticeship at Brookway Park School of Horticulture. Paul has served as a golf course construction superintendent at Permata Sentul GC, Bogor, Indonesia; construction supervisor at Ria Bintan GC, Bintan Island, Indonesia; construction supervisor at Shanghai Links GC, Shanghai, China; superintendent at Pyramids Golf & Country Club, Cairo, Egypt; and surveyor at Red Hawk GC, Sparks, NV.
