US BioEnergy Adds Dave Vander Griend to Board of Directors
May 11, 2005 -- US BioEnergy Corporation ("US Bio") announced today that Dave Vander Griend, President and CEO of ICM, joined US Bio's board of directors.
US Bio (
http://www.usbioenergy.net) CEO and Chairman of the Board, Gordon Ommen, said, "Dave Vander Griend is an excellent addition to the board of directors at US BioEnergy. From the beginning, we wanted to assemble the top experts in the industry and as CEO of the leading designer of ethanol plant technology, Dave brings more than his share of industry expertise."
Vander Griend is the CEO of ICM, one of the premier design/engineering firms for ethanol processing facilities in the world. He worked in the early stages of fuel ethanol plant development in the late 1970s and early 1980s and over the past 25 years has designed and constructed numerous ethanol production plants across the Midwest.
In addition to Ommen, Vander Griend joins Steve Myers, Jill Wilts, Ron Fagen, Jennifer Johnson, Wayne Mitchell and Brian Thome on the board of directors at US Bio.
US BioEnergy is a Brookings, S.D. based corporation that is working to build and operate biofuel production facilities in the United States (
http://www.usbioenergy.net). US Bio intends to build large, efficient plants on strategic sites, partnering with local farmers and co-ops wherever possible.
US BioEnergy Adds Dave Vander Griend to Board of Directors