Osborn & Barr has a new Executive Management Team in place. These 5 people will report to Joe Osborn and Steve Barr.
The new Executive Management Team will take over functional management of the agency on a day-to-day basis. In addition, the team will assist Osborn and Barr as they focus efforts on developing more strategic and long-term growth opportunities for the agency. The Executive Management Team includes:
Cheryl Bergeron has been promoted to Chief Creative Officer. In her new role, she will supervise the entire agency’s creative output, growing digital services division and production groups. Her charge will be to continue to improve our product in every way.
Steve Kunkel has been promoted to the new position of Chief Operating Officer. Now in his new role, Kunkel will oversee the entire organizational process including how the introduction of new clients into the agency, project workflow, and the client’s ultimate satisfaction. In addition, he will continue to lead the account teams for several of our clients and facilitate the account planning function.
Rhonda Ries-Aguilar, a 15-year O&B veteran, serves as the agency’s Chief Financial Officer. She is not only responsible for not running the financial, legal and technology side of O&B for the agency, but also serves as oversight on our client’s financial matters.
Michael Turley rejoins Osborn & Barr as Executive Vice President. In his new role, Turley will be responsible for client relationships, networking alliances and new product and service development.
Hugh Whaley, who has been with the agency for 11 years, has been promoted to president of the O&B Association and Government business unit.
It’s show time in Progress City, IL (near Decatur) and the weather is looking beautiful.
I know that one of the highlights of the New Holland tent is going to be Jay Leno’s Ecojet car which runs on biodiesel. It will be on display and on Wednesday a very important person will be stopping by to pay a visit.
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Philippa Stevenson is 
I have never met someone who grows worms for a living but that’s what Dr. Patrick Meeus is doing for 
Dr. Merlyn Lucas is Associate Director, Pharmaceutical Clinical Development, VMRD for Pfizer Animal Health. At the recent Pfizer media event he spoke to us about some of his research that focused on single-dose therapy, specifically on 
After the big show at the John Deere product launch all the dealers were invited down to the floor and the next room to see all the new equipment up close and personal.
The big combines just have that “wow” factor when it comes to a show and this week’s John Deere product introduction was no exception. The marketing manager for combines for John Deere is Seth Crawford. I interviewed him right after the field demonstration portion on combines. The one in this picture is one of their new 
Here’s where we got to see new sprayers in action at the John Deere product introduction. We had three presenters including Iowa farm brothers Brent and Lee Madden and Adam Hart. They also talked about how some of the new John Deere precision ag equipment works with these sprayers to more precisely apply product.