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. Before joining McKinsey, she held leadership positions with Procter & Gamble. Lin holds an MBA in Strategy and an MA in International Relations from Yale University. She received a BA in Computer Science from Harvard University. Dividend Increase The Board of Directors of Patterson Companies also today declared a 25 percent increase in the regular quarterly cash dividend to $0.20 per share, from the prior quarterly dividend of $0.16 per share. The dividend will be payable on April 25, 2014, to shareholders of record on April 11, 2014.