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Dan Kelley, Chairman of the Board and President

Daniel T. Kelley became chairman of the board and president of GROWMARK, Inc. September 1, 2000. He operates a grain farm near Normal, Illinois in partnership with his two brothers and his son.

He was elected to the GROWMARK Board in 1995 and served as one of two vice-chairmen from 1998 to 2000. Kelley has been a director of Evergreen FS, Inc., Bloomington, Illinois, since 1977, serving as president from 1985 to 2008. He served as a director of Farmland Mutual Insurance Company, Des Moines, Iowa, from 2003 to 2008. He was elected to the Nationwide Board of Directors, Columbus, Ohio, in April 2006, and was named to the board of Nationwide Bank in March 2009. Dan was elected to the CoBank Board of Directors, Denver, Colorado, in January 2004 and has served as first vice chairman since 2007. He has also served as chairman of the CoBank Budget/Finance Committee, and is currently a member of the Executive and Compensation Committees.

Dan was a board member of AgriBank FCB, St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1989 to 1996 and served as chairman from 1991-94. He chaired the merger steering committee forming AgriBank FCB in May 1992. He also has served on the board of 1st Farm Credit Services, Bloomington, Illinois.

Dan was a member of the McLean County Chamber of Commerce Ag Council and served as the organization’s co-chairman for ten years. In 1990 he earned the Cooperative Leadership Award from the Illinois Cooperative Coordinating Committee. In 1992 Kelley received the Outstanding Service to Agriculture Award from the Bloomington-Normal Ag Club. He is a 1984 graduate of the Illinois Agricultural Leadership Foundation Program, has served as a director and vice chairman, and was elected chairman of the IALF in November 2009. Dan was chosen Director of the Year for his outstanding leadership abilities by the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives at their annual meeting in January, 2002, and most recently has served as co-chairman of the NCFC 2007 Farm Bill Policy Task Force Committee.

Kelley is a 1970 graduate of Illinois State University with a bachelor’s degree in agriculture. Dan began serving on the Illinois State University Alumni Board of Directors in 2002, serving as president for the past two years. In 2009, he was inducted into the ISU College of Applied Science and Technology (CAST) Hall of Fame and was also named the 2009 Distinguished Alumnus of Normal Community High School.

Dan is active in his church. He and his wife, Pam, have two daughters and a son, and seven grandchildren.
 

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