Leadership
Decades of experience
Our team leads with decades of experience within the dairy products and manufacturing industry under their belt.
Many of our leaders gained experience by working their way up through various positions in the UDA plant. Such exposure to many different areas within our company results in hands-on leaders with big- picture vision.
Steve Baxley
SVP of Operations
Dave Kedzierski
SVP of Business Transformation
jon hersam
Director of People Operations
Heidi Myers
Director of Lab and Supplier Quality
Zach Fort
General Counsel & VP Govt. Relations
Sarah Padilla
Director of Food Safety & Quality
Kai Thompson
Asst. Corporate Controller
Sales and Trading
Grant Gondell
Head of Global Commodities
Scott Miniat
Vice President of Strategy & Commercial Origination
Matt Glasser
Sr. Director of Ingredients Portfolio
Kristen Gardner
Director of Export Operations & Logistics
Frances Zapanta
Director of Planning & Inventory
Casey Matzke
Director of Fluid Sales