Infinia Group

Garland West, Principal Creative

Garland West is a Creative Principal with Infinia Group, bringing more than thirty years of experience in all aspects of organizational communications.

Garland worked for more than twenty years for Cargill, Incorporated, an international commodity, food, and financial company, serving as vice president of corporate public affairs, and director of corporate communications, with responsibility for media relations, speechwriting, crisis communications, financial reporting and publications, as well as special projects assigned to him by the office of the chairman.

He also has worked as a senior vice president and subsequently managing director for Enterprise IG, the international brand and identity firm. While with Enterprise IG, Garland managed the company's brand-related work with the Ford Motor Company in Detroit.

Garland is an honors graduate of Wake Forest University and the Defense Information School at Ft. Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, and has done graduate studies in news editorial journalism at the University of Missouri at Columbia.