Mr. Niquette brings 20 years of risk management, food processing and management experience with Sara Lee Corporation, a Fortune 500 company. His most recent position was Vice President Meat Procurement and Meat Risk Management. Other roles he held for Sara Lee were: Executive Director, Business Planning Worldwide Food & Grocery; Vice President Finance, Chief Financial Officer Bryan Foods (A Division Sara Lee Corporation); Vice President Supply Chain Strategy; Vice President Commodity Risk Management. He has earned both Certified Public Accountant and Certified Managerial Accountant designations, and he is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a B.S. in Accounting.
Advance Trading Inc., established in 1980, is an employee owned firm that supplies commodity brokerage and risk management consulting to grain warehouses, livestock entities, biofuels companies, and transportation organizations from its corporate office in Bloomington. It also has a branch office network that provides risk management services to individual producers throughout the U.S.