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Board of Directors
   
Les Cole Leslie L. Cole Jr.
Chairman
President, Commodity Resource Corporation

Les Cole is the entrepreneur responsible for developing the Commodity Resource Corporation business plan and obtaining the private and public financing to construct the Caledonia, NY facility.  He has over 25 years of experience in transportation, agriculture and agribusiness with sales and marketing, financial and general management expertise.  Mr. Cole is also President of Bulk Products Development Corp and served as President of Ag Network, Inc. from 1984 to 1999.  Mr. Cole serves on the Livingston County Chamber of Commerce Board, the Noyes Hospital Board and he is an appointee to the Advisory Council on Agriculture for New York Governor Elliot Spitzer.

Tom Cronmiller Thomas B. Cronmiller
Secretary
Partner, Hiscock & Barclay LLP

Mr. Cronmiller is an experienced trial lawyer who has tried a variety of cases to verdict. He has also handled appeals in both federal and state courts. Mr. Cronmiller’s practice focuses on products liability, complex personal injury, commercial litigation and professional liability litigation, including medical malpractice, accounting malpractice and directors and officers liability. Mr. Cronmiller serves as Chair of the Torts & Products Liability Defense Practice Area. Mr. Conmiller earned his undergraduate degree in 1978, magna cum laude, from the State University of New York at Geneseo and his J.D. in 1981 from Franklin Pierce Law Center

Matthew Cole Matthew E. Cole
Treasurer
Director of Business Development, Commodity Resource Corporation

Matt Cole joined Commodity Resource Corporation in May of 2000 as Plant Manager.  During that time as Plant Manager his responsibilities included assisting in financing and startup of the facility and developing back office systems.  Matt currently serves as the Director of Business Development for CRC and is President of LMB Development.  Prior to joining CRC Mr. Cole was a Sales Manager within the Organic Product Market Group of Waste Management Inc. He was directly responsible for managing sales of bulk products throughout the Eastern United States from nine regional facilities.  Mr. Cole earned a bachelors degree in Plant Science from the State University of New York at Cobleskill in 1992.

Dave Collins David J. Collins
Board Member

Senior Vice President Genesee and Wyoming Railroad

Dave Collins became Senior Vice President of the New York and Pennsylvania Region in October 1997, after having served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Development since January 1997. From 1992 to 1997, he was Vice President of Marketing for the New York and Pennsylvania Region, responsible for marketing, safety, information systems and special projects. From 1990 to 1992, he was General Manager of Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Company and Rochester & Southern Railroad, Inc. Mr. Collins joined the Company in 1979. Mr. Collins earned his undergraduate degree in 1979 from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and his MBA from the Simon School at the University of Rochester in 1988.

Bruce Dehm Bruce A. Dehm
Board Member
President, Dehm Associates

Bruce Dehm is the President of Dehm Associates a consulting firm that specializes in farm based and agribusiness economics including enterprise analysis; budgeting; farm business plans; credit requests and agricultural development.  Prior to forming Dehm Associates Mr. Dehm held positions as an Agricultural Economist for Agricultural Consulting Services, Inc., Experience Inc. and Farm Systems Development Corporation.  Mr. Dehm earned an undergraduate degree in 1977 from Cornell University and his M.S. in 1984 from University of Florida with a concentration in Production Economics, Farm Management and Agricultural Development.
 
 

 

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