Guest Columns

Following are links to Cheese Market News' guest columns, which were added to this page beginning October 1, 2006. (Prior articles can be found in the CMN Article Archive)

To find a particular column, please select from the pull-down menu below the author's name.

Stan G. Andre
CEO of the California Milk Advisory Board.

Ken Bailey
Associate professor of agricultural economics at Penn State

Marc A.H. Beck
Senior vice president of marketing for the U.S. Dairy Export Council.

Sandra Benson
Manager, market access and regulatory affairs, U.S. Dairy Export Council.

Rusty Bishop, Ph.D.
Director of the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research and professor of food science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Kathryn Boor
Professor of food science and serves as director of the Milk Quality Improvement Program at Cornell University

Jaime Castaneda
Senior trade policy advisor for the U.S. Dairy Export Council.

Jon Davis
Chief operating officer of Davisco Foods, Le Sueur, Minn.

Catherine W. Donnelly, PhD.
Co-director of the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese and a professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at the University of Vermont.

Sara Dorland
Managing partner with Ceres Dairy Risk Management LLC in Seattle.

Andrew Faulman
Research/broker assistant at Rice Dairy in Chicago.

Rodrigo Fernandez
Marketing Manager, U.S. Dairy Export Council’s Mexico Representative Office

John Fiscalini
Owner of Fiscalini Farms and its associated cheese plant, Fiscalini Cheese Co., Modesto, Calif.

Brian Fletcher
Research analyst and broker at Rice Dairy* in Chicago.

Tom Gallagher
CEO of Dairy Management Inc., the planning and management organization that aims to build dairy sales on behalf of U.S. dairy producers.

Tom Gaughan
Managing partner of Downes O’Neill LLC and its sister company, the consulting firm eDairy Inc.

Patrick Geoghegan
Senior vice president, corporate communications for the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board.

Brad Gehrke
Director of global trade analysis for the U.S. Dairy Export Council.

Jennifer Giambroni
Director of communications for the California Milk Advisory Board.

Kara Gutormson
Management trainee at Leprino Foods.

Tricia Heinrich
Vice president of communications for the California Milk Advisory Board.

Angelique Hollister
Marketing director, cheese and manufactured products, for the U.S. Dairy Export Council.

John Jeter
President and CEO of Hilmar Cheese Co.

Mark Johnson
Interim director of the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research.

Tom Johnson
Cheesemaker, writer and consultant to the Dairy Business Innovation Center.

Rachel Kaldor
Executive Director, Dairy Institute of California

Jerry Kozak
President and CEO of the National Milk Producers Federation.

Dave Kurzawski
Senior commodities broker with Downes-O’Neill LLC, Chicago.

Veronique Lagrange
Vice president of strategic research and business development, U.S. Dairy Export Council

Brad Legreid
Executive Director, Wisconsin Dairy Products Association

Diane Lewis
Vice president of market access and regulatory affairs, U.S. Dairy Export council.

Chris Lindborg
Commodity Analyst, Downes-O’Neill LLC.

John Lucey
Director of the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Michael Marsh
CEO of Western United Dairymen, an organization which provides support to milk producers in California.

Matt McKnight
Vice President of Export Ingredients, Marketing and Industry Affairs for the U.S. Dairy Export Council.

Dr. Lloyd Metzger
Associate professor and Alfred Chair in Dairy Education at South Dakota State University in Brookings and director of the Dairy Management Inc.-sponsored Midwest Dairy Foods Research Center.

Eric Meyer
Independent dairy market analyst.

Shawna Morris
Trade policy advisor with the U.S. Dairy Export Council.

Vikki Nicholson
Vice president of U.S. manufacturing and ingredients marketing at the U.S. Dairy Export Council.

Joseph O'Donnell
Executive Director, California Dairy Research Foundation

Phil Plourd
Vice president of research at Blimling and Associates, Cottage Grove, WI.

Kevin Ponticelli
Chair of the Dairy Research Institute and senior executive vice president of Dairy Management Inc. and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy.

Dr. Mali Reddy
President of the American Dairy and Food Consulting Laboratories and International Media and Cultures (IMAC Inc.), Denver, Colo. He holds several degrees including M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Iowa State University in food technology and microbiology.

Brian Rice
Principal at Rice Dairy in Chicago.

Jeff Roberts
Member of the board of directors of Slow Food USA. Author of The Atlas of American Artisan Cheese (Chelsea Green: 2007) and co-founder and principal consultant to the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese at the University of Vermont.

James Robson
CEO of the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, Madison, Wis.

Rick Schlapman
National accounts manager-dairy products for WOW Logistics, Appleton, Wis.

Dean Sommer
Cheese technologist for the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research.

Jon Spainhour
Broker, Rice Dairy, Chicago.

Vern Spaulding
Vice president of Data Specialists Inc.

Margaret Speich
Vice president of communications and membership for the U.S. Dairy Export Council.

Dr. Mark Stephenson
Cornell Program on Dairy Markets & Policy

Tom Suber
President of the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC).

Jim Tillison
Chief operating officer for Cooperatives Working Together and senior vice president of special projects for National Milk Producers Federation, Arlington, Va.

Connie Tipton
President and CEO, International Dairy Foods Association

Phillip S. Tong
Director of the Dairy Products Technology Center and professor or dairy science at California Polytechnic State University where he has been contributing to and driving innovation and dairy sector growth for the past 20 years.

John Umhoefer
Executive Director, Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association

Bill Van Dam
Joined the Alliance of Western Milk Producers as CEO and executive vice president in January 2007. The Alliance is made up of three California cooperatives which market about 62 percent of the milk produced in California.

Bob Wills
President of Cedar Grove Cheese Inc., Plain, Wis.

Stan Woodworth
Senior vice president of channel marketing for the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, Madison, Wis.

Ben Yale
Recognized as an expert in dairy law and policy, represents dairy interests throughout the country in legislation, litigation and administrative issues

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