Todd L. Bachman
©2008 Hilary Bullock POSITION: Chairman / Chief Executive Officer INDUSTRY AFFILIATIONS: Hortica Insurance Company – Edwardsville, IL:
(insurance company for the horticulture industry): Board of Directors / 1996 to Present Chairman – Marketing Committee Chairman of the Board – 2008 to Present
(insurance company for the horticulture industry): Yoder Brothers, Inc. – Barberton, OH:
(international horticultural corporation): Board of Directors / 2000 to Present
(international horticultural corporation): Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association Foundation: Board of Trustees / 2003 to Present
American Floral Endowment: Board of Trustees / 1987-1998 Chairman / 1997-1998
Ohio State Florists’ Association: Board of Directors / 1981-1984
Society of American Florists: Chairman – Foundation for Floriculture /1975-1977
North Central Florists’ Association: Board of Directors / 1977-1980 Chairman-Finance and Formula Committee / 1979-1980 Vice President / 1983-1985 President / 1985-1987
Minnesota Commercial Flower Growers: President / 1972-1974
University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences: Donor and Volunteer; established Todd and Barbara Bachman Chair in Horticulture Marketing, 2004
EDUCATION: BS from the University of Minnesota in 1968: Major: Horticulture Science Minor: Business Administration
OUTSIDE AFFILIATIONS: Member – Delta Theta Sigma Professional Agriculture Fraternity
Member – Pi Alpha Psi Honorary Floriculture Fraternity
Past President – Christiania Lutheran Church, Lakeville, Minnesota
Past President – Christiania Lutheran Church Foundation
Past Member – Board of Regents of Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa
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Two relatives of a coach for the American Volleyball team, and their tour-guide, were attacked by a knife-wielding Chinese man Saturday.
Beijing's Drum Tower 
Todd and Barbara Bachman of Farmington, Minnesota USA, in-laws of Hugh McCutcheon- head U.S. indoor men’s volleyball coach, were touring the Drum Tower in central Beijing when the attack occurred. Mr. Bachman was killed, his wife and their tour-guide were injured and are undergoing treatment at Peking Union Medical College Hospital.

Elisabeth Bachman McCutcheon, wife of Hugh McCutcheon and a member of the 2004 United States women’s Olympics volleyball team, was also present for the attack on her parents, but was herself uninjured.

The attacker, identified by Chinese state sources as Tang Yongming, a 47 year old from  Hangzhou, Zhejiang leapt to his death from the tower's second story in what was labeled a suicide.

A United States Olympic Committee spokesman stated that the victims weren't wearing anything that might have marked them as Americans or as associated with a US team. He further stated that it wasn't known whether the U.S. men's volleyball team would compete in a match scheduled for Sunday and that no extra security was planned for U.S. athletes.

U.S. President George W. Bush and his wife Laura were in the city for the Olympic games. Mr. Bush stated, “Laura and I were also saddened by the attack on an American family and their Chinese tour guide today in Beijing. The United States government has offered to provide any assistance the family needs.”

Todd Bachman was the CEO of Bachman's, Inc; a regional chain of garden centers based in Minneapolis. He was sixty-two years old.