Staff & Board

ICIA Staff Members
  
James Fung, Chief Executive Officer
fung@indianacrop.org
Joe Deford, Chief Operating Officer                        
deford@indianacrop.org
James Bonick, Warm Germ Department Head
bonick@indianacrop.org 
Susan Dadacz, Sample Data Department Head       
dadacz@indianacrop.org
Karen Laffoon, Cold Test Department Head
laffoon@indianacrop.org
Srilakshmi Makkena, Ph.D, Research Scientist
makkena@indianacrop.org
Justin Milcarek, Marketing Director & Herbicide Dept Head 
milcarek@indianacrop.org
Daniel Heiss, Field Inspection Program Dept Head
heiss@indianacrop.org
Zach Sparks, Corn Field Programs
sparks@indianacrop.org
Matheus Benatti, Ph.D, Genetics Lab Director
benatti@indianacrop.org
Karen Miller, CGT, Trait Confirmation Dept Head             miller@indianacrop.org
Susan Overdorf, Executive Assistant & Event Development             
overdorf@indianacrop.org
Rachael Sondeno, MS, RGT, AP/LLP Dept Head                                   sondeno@indianacrop.org
Kevin Seward, RST, Seed Lab Director                
seward@indianacrop.org
Gil Waibel, RST, Native Seed Program Director              
waibel@indianacrop.org
Tom Mager, RST, Native Seed Program
mager@indianacrop.org
Jayne Wolff, Bookkeeper
wolff@indianacrop.org

ICIA Lab Technicians

ICIA ExecutiveCommittee

CHUCK SCHNEIDER President,  Ag Venture, Inc. 765-427-3064
DAVID PEARL  Vice President, The Cisco Companies 317-357-7013
MATT NICE Director at Large, Thurston Genetics 765-362-9490
RYAN CAMPBELL Immed. Past Pres., Total Seed Production, 765-963-5960
MARSHALL MARTIN Purdue Faculty, 765-494-8365

ICIA Board of Directors

BEN GREEN, Purple Ribbon Seeds 765-597-2233
BARRY JOHNSON, MBS Genetics, 765-414-0462
SCOTT JOHNSON, SST Research, LLC  765-376-5554
FRANK LYNCH, AgReliant Genetics 317-896-5551
JASON MOREHOUSE, Beck's Hybrids 812-614-6181
DAN ROWLAND, Greenleaf Genetics/Syngenta Seedcare 260-723-4519
CHRIS STAIGER, Purdue Faculty 765-494-4615
JOHN STURGES, Bayer Crop Science 219-261-2122 
RON TURCO, Purdue Faculty 765-494-8077
MARVIN WIEDERHOLD, Tate & Lyle 217-848-1671
JILL ZELLER, Dow AgroSciences 317-337-3498