Staff & Board
ICIA Staff Members
James Fung, Chief Executive Officer
Joe Deford, Chief Operating Officer
John Zheng, Ph.D., Chief Science Officer
Laura Donaldson, Seed Lab Director
Matheus Benatti, Ph.D., Genetics Lab Director
Justin Milcarek, Marketing Director
Susan Overdorf, Executive Assistant & Event Development
Susan Dadacz, Sample Data Department Head
James Bonick, Warm Germ Department Head
Karen Laffoon, Cold Test Department Head
Logan Cass, Soybean Field Programs & EHS Manager
Zach Sparks, Corn Field Programs
Penny Carey, Herbicide Department Head
Samantha Pettit, Trait Confirmation Dept Head
Tom Mager, RST, Native Seed Program
Randy Barger, IT Manager
Jayne Wolff, Bookkeeper
ICIA Executive Committee
JASON MOREHOUSE President, Beck's Hybrids
MARVIN WIEDERHOLD Vice President, Tate & Lyle
SAMANTHA BOCK Director at Large, Inari
DAVID PEARL Immed. Past Pres., The Cisco Companies
SHAWN DONKIN Purdue Faculty
ICIA Board of Directors
BEN GREEN, Purple Ribbon Seeds
BARRY JOHNSON, MBS Genetics,
DAN ROWLAND, Greenleaf Genetics/Syngenta Seedcare
JOHN STURGES, Bayer Crop Science
TROY GINTHER, AgReliant Gentics
AARON WHALEN, Ag Alumni Seed
ROGER BUDREAU, Remington seeds
TROY MCKILLIP, AgVenture McKillip Seeds
JIM PARKS, Corteva Agriscience
CHRIS STAIGER, Purdue Faculty
RON TURCO, Purdue Faculty