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Industry Advisory Board Profiles
 Steven
D. Brody
Senior Manager
Six Sigma and Planning for Pioneer Sales and Marketing
DuPont Agriculture & Nutrition Steve Brody is Senior Manager, Business Performance and Planning for Pioneer Sales and Marketing. He facilitates Pioneer’s North America strategic and tactical planning; leads Pioneer’s ISO certification for sales functions; provides management and coordination of compliance and data privacy; and leads the Business Performance operations for the Sales and Marketing function. He joined Pioneer in 1995 as a Government Relations Manager with responsibility for federal policy, a role he held for five years. Brody came to Pioneer from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., where he was a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture and USDA’s Farm Service Agency. He graduated Cum Laude from Morningside College, has a Master’s of Arts degree from the University of Iowa, and is a graduate of K-State’s Master of Agribusiness program. |
|  Raymond
M. Cesca
President and CEO
GAEÁ
Raymond Cesca is Founder,
President, and CEO of GAEÁ, a market
development, trade, and strategic planning
organization that promotes the development
of small to medium-sized enterprises in
support of economic advancement in developing
countries. From 1995 to 1999 he was the
Managing Director of McDonald's World Trade,
responsible for reducing or eliminating
barriers to trade among the 118 countries
in which McDonald's operates. He held the
position of Global Purchasing with McDonald's
from 1992 to 1995 and was Director of International
Purchasing Atlantic from 1987 to 1992. Prior
to his work at McDonald's, Cesca spent 15
years with CPC International. He provides
leadership to a number of boards and councils,
including the Food and Agriculture Committee
of the National Policy Association, the
Food Products Committee for the Pacific
Basin Economic Council, the agricultural
policy-working group of the United States
Council for International Business, the
Advisory Board of FyBx, and as an advisor
to RiseLink. He is the chairman of the Food
and Agricultural Committee of the U.S. ASEAN
Council, and co-chairman of the World Agricultural
Forum. He also received the Corporate Conservation
Leadership Award. Mr. Cesca has a bachelor's
degree from St. Bonaventure University and
an MBA from Columbia University, and attended
the University of Southern California's
School of Food Management and Stanford University's
Decision Theory Forum. |
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 Terry
J. Garvert
Specialty Foodgrains
Team Leader
Grain and Oilseed Supply Chain NA
Cargill, Incorporated
Terry Garvert is the current Corn and SBM Customer Risk Manager. He started this position in 2007 and is responsible for Customer risk management for GOSCNA Key clients utilizing corn and Soybean meal. Terry has spent 30 years working with Cargill. Prior to his recently new position, Garvert was the Foodgrains Market Development Leader for the wheat product line. In essence, Garvert was a wheat generalist, having worked with export customers to improve the quality or price competitiveness of their flour or milling operations in the past. He has also spent 17 years as a cash merchant of wheat and has traded all six classes of wheat and all export ranges. Terry has served as the Goertzen Seed Research Project Director where he oversaw Cargill's wheat breeding business. Garvert has worked at the KSU Cereal Science Lab, KSU experiment station, and been a past Director at the Kansas City Board of Trade. Garvert earned a bachelor’s in Feed Science and Chemistry from Kansas State University, graduating in 1977. |
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Keith D. Harris C.P.M.
Director Corporate Purchasing
Farmland Foods, Inc.
Keith Harris is the Director of Corporate Purchasing for Farmland Foods. He directs both the strategic and tactical purchasing for all Farmland Foods’ facilities across the United States. Currently his role includes overseeing the purchasing agricultural commodities and value added supplies to support sales and marketing of pork products globally. Previously, Keith worked with General Mills and Sara Lee Foods as a Grain Merchandiser and a Supply Chain Strategy Manager. He earned the designation of Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M.) Keith is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer where he served as an Agribusiness Advisor to the Ministry of Natural Resources to Honduras Central America from 1987-1989. He worked primarily developing agribusinesses to generate income to reduce poverty in rural communities. Harris graduated from Lincoln University in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics, attended the University of St. Thomas Masters of International Management program and earned a Master’s Degree in Agribusiness from Kansas State University.
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Donald Hecht
Retired Director, Sales & Marketing
Elanco Animal Health
Donald Hecht retired in 2002 from Elanco Animal Health, a subsidiary of Eli Lilly & Company, where he was Director of Sales and Marketing for Elanco’s U.S. Cattle animal health products business. Hecht joined Elanco in 1971 and held several sales and marketing positions prior to becoming Director of Human Resources for Lilly’s Geneva Operations in 1985 and in 1986 the Director of Human Resources for Lilly’s European Medical Instrument Companies and Elizabeth Arden Operations. He returned to the U.S. Elanco Animal Health Operations in 1987 as Director of World-Wide Business Planning. Hecht is a past member of the FFA Foundation Sponsors’ Board, Past-Chairman of the Animal Industry Foundation Board of Trustees, Chaired the Animal Industry Foundation Resource Development Committee, and the N.C. A&T Agriculture School Advisory Council. Mr. Hecht also served as Chairman of the K-State College of Agriculture and K-State Research and Extension Advisory Council, 2004-2006. He has a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics from Kansas State University, and was honored as an Ag. Econ. Distinguished Alum in 2001.
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 Glenn
McClelland
Co-founder and CEO
M2P2, LLC
Glenn McClelland is co-founder and CEO of M2P2, a company engaged in all aspects of the swine industry from genetics to processing. He was previously partner and co-founder of BMI Group, a project-based company with operations primarily based in the agribusiness industry. McClelland is a K-State graduate with a CPA certificate from the state of Colorado, and still maintains the certificate in an inactive (non-practicing) classification.
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|  William
Newham
Vice President
Farm Journal Media
Bill Newham is Vice President of Farm Journal Media. He is retired
as Senior Vice President, food360º for Vance
Publishing. He was previously publisher of Pork,
Swine Practitioner, Bovine Veterinarian, Drovers,
Dairy Herd Management and Meat & Seafood Merchandising.
He has also taught as a vocational agriculture
instructor for two high schools in Missouri. Newham
received his bachelor’s and master’s
degree from the University of Missouri. He is
Vice President on the University of Missouri’s
College of Agriculture Alumni Board of Directors
and Vice President of the Kansas City chapter
of the Missouri University Alumni Association.
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 Steve
Packebush
President
Koch Nitrogen Company
Steve is president of Koch Nitrogen Company and serves as vice president – nitrogen for Koch Industries, Inc. Based in Wichita, Kan., Koch Industries consists of a group of companies in refining and chemicals; process and pollution control equipment and technologies; minerals and fertilizers; fibers and polymers; commodity and financial trading and services; and forest and consumer products. Koch companies have a presence in nearly 60 countries and employ about 80,000 people. Koch Nitrogen Company, and its affiliates, own nitrogen fertilizer plants in North America, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. The company's fertilizer interests manufacture, market and distribute more than 7.5 million metric tons of nitrogen products annually. The company is a subsidiary of Koch Mineral Services, LLC. Prior to being named President, Steve was executive vice president of sales and trading for Koch Nitrogen. Steve began his career at Koch in 1987 and has served in business development and sales and trading roles with Koch Minerals Services, Koch Agriculture Company and Koch International Company. Steve graduated from Kansas State University with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics. |
|  Roy
L. Robinson
Vice President, Communication,
Education and Investigations
Archer Daniels Midland
Roy Robinson is Vice President Communications, Education and Investigations, Office of Compliance and Ethics, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM), Decatur, Illinois. Robinson is responsible for global communications, education, and investigations for compliance and ethics matters. Before joining the parent company, Robinson worked for ADM Milling Co. as Vice President. At K-State, Robinson serves as member of: K-State Foundation Board of Trustee; College of Agriculture Dean’s Advisory Council; K-State Master in Agribusiness Industry Advisory Board; honorary member of Alpha Mu; and K-State Diversity Education Scholarship Council. In addition, Robinson serves on the Board of Directors for Providence Medical Center. He served a four-year term on Wyandotte County’s Unified Government Ethics Commission and is former President of Wyandotte County Sports Association. He received a bachelor’s degree from K-State in Milling Science and Management and was honor as the 2005 Alumni Fellow for the College of Agriculture. Robinson and his wife, Sylvia, have endowed scholarships in the colleges of Education and Agriculture at K-State. |
 Dave
Rock
Division Sales Manager
John Deere Company
Dave Rock is a 1980
Cum Laude graduate of Kansas State University
where he earned his BS in Agricultural Mechanization.
In 2003 he graduated from K-State’s Master
of Agribusiness program. Dave is a 27-year veteran
of John Deere Company holding a variety of positions
of increased responsibility in product support,
marketing and sales. In his current position as
Division Sales Manager, Dave is responsible for
machinery, parts and service sales, dealer location
and development and John Deere’s overall
market success for the states of Arkansas, Louisiana
and the Missouri Bootheel. |
 Marsha
Webster
Group Controller – Fresh Meats
Tyson, Inc. Marsha Webster is the Group Controller – Fresh Meats Division of Tyson, Inc. in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota. Tyson Fresh Meats is the largest Beef Processor and the second largest Pork Processor in the U.S. Marsha is responsible for forecasting and reporting results for eight beef processing plants and six pork processing plants on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. She also coordinates and creates monthly presentations to Tyson stakeholders, and analyzes and reports marketplace business opportunities. Previously she has worked as the CFO of MD Instruments, 1stAg, Inc. and Premium Standard Farms. Marsha was one of the original members of the team that built Premium Standard Farms, a closed-system vertically integrated swine operations that over a 6-year period built a live swine operation from zero to 120,000 sows, an 8,000/day packing plant, and 2 feed mills to support the production. Marsha received her MBA and undergraduate degrees from Western Illinois University.
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