Management
Bourns, Inc. |
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National Sales ManagerBourns, Inc, with worldwide headquarters in Riverside, California, manufactures a range of products that impact almost every aspect of today’s electronics industry. Bourns patented the world’s first trimming potentiometer and established a benchmark for quality, value, and innovation. Bourns’ dedication to excellence ensures continuous improvement of its products and services to satisfy customer requirements on a global basis. |
AVNET |
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General Manager, starting the Minneapolis operationAvnet, Inc. (AVT) is a Fortune 500 company, providing cost-effective services and solutions vital to a broad base of more than 100,000 customers and 300 suppliers. Avnet is one of the world’s largest industrial distributors of electronic parts, enterprise computing and storage products and embedded subsystems, creating a vital link in the technology supply chain. |
Confinement Livestock Systems, Inc. |
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President and General ManagerConfinement Livestock Systems was an innovator in livestock production systems as the industry moved to larger confined methods of feeding livestock. CLS’s designs featured open air confinement, labor saving feed and water systems as well as manure management that contained nutrients and protected the environment. With these efficiencies, producers could finish larger numbers with less labor and more predictable performance. |
Big Horn Harvestore |
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President and General ManagerBig Horn Harvestore was started as a new dealer for A.O. Smith Harvestore serving the state of Colorado, the Nebraska panhandle and southern Wyoming. Harvestore systems helped good farmers be better managers through more efficient crop production, livestock feeding and manure management. Big Horn was instrumental in bringing A.O. Smith into the water and waste water industry with AquaStore products. |
Farmland Industries |
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Vice President, Management Center for AgricultureFarmland Industries was the leading agricultural cooperative in North America, owned by 1,700 farm in the United States, Canada and Mexico, which cooperatives were in turn owned by more than 600,000 farmer families. Farmland provided both agricultural supply and marketing services ranging from petroleum refining, fertilizer manufacture, feeds, shipping, crop production, livestock production, and refrigerated foods sales and marketing. (currently owned by Smithfield Foods) |