World Dairy Expo Leadership
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The World Dairy Expo Board of Directors is comprised of business professionals and dairy producers representing many dairy industry organizations. The Board of Directors was established in 1970, when World Dairy Expo, Inc. (WDE) was formed. The following are Expo directors, their organization affiliations and/or board positions.
| President Bill Hageman * At-Large Representative |
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Vice President |
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Secretary/Treasurer |
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Tim Abbott At-Large Representative |
Randy Koller |
| Bill Barlass Director Emeritus |
Ernie Kueffner |
| Dave Bollig * WDE Overall Dairy Cattle Show Superintendent |
Joan Lau * At-Large Representative |
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Joe Coburn * WDE Commercial Exhibitor Committee Chair |
Annie McCullough |
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Scott Culbertson Purebred Breeders of WDE |
Jennifer Meyer Purebred Breeders of WDE |
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Jason Danhof |
Eric Olstad Dane County Holstein Breeders |
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Alan Deming Director Emeritus |
Randy Romanski Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) |
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Kami Dorn |
Chad Ryan |
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Paul Fricke |
Jeannette Sheehan |
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Corey Geiger |
Matt Simon Foremost Farms USA |
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Jon Schmidt |
Theresa Sweeney-Murphy National Milk Producers Federation |
| Paul Hunt URUS |
Amy Steinke |
| Dean Hermsdorf ABS Global, Inc. |
Wes Vomastic CentralStar Cooperative Inc. |
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Laura Herschleb * |
Bryan Voegeli * |
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Josh Hushon * At-Large Representative |
Ryan Weigel Wisconsin Holstein Association |
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Kevin Jorgensen * Select Sires, Inc. |
Emily Yeiser Stepp |
| *Denotes member of the Executive Committee | |
Commercial Exhibitor Committee
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Joe Coburn, Coburn Company (Chair) |
Doug Harland, Dairyland Laboratories |
| Josh Hushon, Cargill, Inc. (Vice Chair) | Mike Opperman, National Dairy Shrine |
| Tera Baker, Nedap Livestock Management | Tim Ottenbacher, Scherer Inc. |
| Erin Carter, Lallemand Animal Nutrition | Emily Warnimont, Trans Ova |
| Dana Casto, Udder Tech, Inc. |
Steve Pesik, Zimmerman Manufacturing, LLC |
| Cheryl DeCraene, GEA Farm Technologies |
Terri Smith, Select Sires, Inc. |
| Jenny Eighmy, Peach Teats | Marjorie Stieve, Vita Plus Corporation |
| Annie McCullough, Farm Journal Media | Laura Tresslar, Merck Animal Health |
| Emily Hoeing, Benton Group | Taylor Weisensel, Ag-Bag by RCI |
| Sara Harbaugh, Zoetis |
Dairy Cattle Exhibitor Committee
| Tom Morris, Industry Representative (Chair) | Andrew Reynolds, At-Large Red & White Representative |
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Roger Turner, Industry Representative (Vice Chair) |
Kelly Reynolds, At-Large Holstein Representative |
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Dave Bollig, Overall Dairy Cattle Show Superintendent |
Joe Rocha, Western United States and Western Canada Representative |
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Katie Agnew, National Milking Shorthorn Representative |
Chad Ryan, Wisconsin Representative |
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Tracy Brandel, At-Large Milking Shorthorn Representative |
Dusty Schirm, At-Large Jersey Representative |
| Mark Brown, National Ayrshire Representative | Megan Schrupp, DVM, National Guernsey Representative |
| Evan Creek, At-Large Ayrshire Representative | Joe Sparrow, At-Large Brown Swiss Representative |
| Ted deMent, National Jersey Representative | Kevin Stoltzfus, At-Large Guernsey Representative |
| Erica Enright, Eastern Canada Representative | Jeff Stookey, Midwestern United States Representative |
| Kim Grewe, At-Large Guernsey Representative | Trent Styczynski, At-Large Red & White Representative |
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Matt Henkes, At-Large Milking Shorthorn Representative |
Jennifer Thomas, At-Large Jersey Representative |
| Tony Kohls, National Red & White Representative |
Laurie Winkelman, National Brown Swiss Representatve |
| Christopher Lang, Industry Representative | Kurt Wolf, At-Large Ayrshire Representative |
| Adam Liddle, Eastern United States Representative |
Heather Yoder, At-Large Brown Swiss Representative |
| Anthony Liddle, At-Large Holstein Representative | Tim Ziemba, National Holstein Representative |
| Sheila M. McGuirk, DVM, Industry Representative |





