Board of Directors

Chairman of the Board

Gary R. Goodwin is a Principal and the Vice President of Crude Oil Marketing for Texon, a privately held crude oil marketing company.

Member of the Audit Committee

Member of the Compensation Committee

DR. GARY L. ALLEE has been a director of the Company since May 1998. For more than twenty years, Dr. Allee has been Professor of Swine Nutrition at the University of Missouri, a position from which he retired in 2010. Dr. Allee has also served as President and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Midwest Section of the American Society of Animal Science. Dr. Allee has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Animal Husbandry and Swine Nutrition from the University of Missouri and a Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Illinois.

Member of the Audit Committee

Member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee

Member of the Compensation Committee

Member of the Scientific Committee

PAUL M. KEARNS has been a director of the Company since June 2001. Mr. Kearns is Director—Marine at Price Forbes Ltd., a London-based insurance brokerage firm which is the successor to Prentis, Donegan & Partners, Ltd., an insurance brokerage firm which Mr. Kearns co-founded in 1993. Mr. Kearns has more than 20 years of experience in the global risk management and insurance industries. Mr. Kearns is a citizen of the United Kingdom.

Member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee

Chair of the Compensation Committee

DR. WILLIAM E. M. LANDS has been a director of the Company since May 1998. In February 2002, Dr. Lands retired as Senior Scientific Advisor to the Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, a position he assumed after serving as head of the Department of Biological Chemistry at the University of Illinois Medical Center. Dr. Lands has a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry from the University of Illinois.

Member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee

Member of the Scientific Committee

DAVID A. OWEN has been a director of the Company since February 2010. Mr. Owen has been a partner in the law firm of Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP for more than the last five years, where he has served in firm management as Deputy Chairman, a member of the Compensation Committee and various other management positions.  He represents businesses in a variety of complex commercial litigation matters.  Mr. Owen's litigation practice includes environmental, agribusiness, anti-trust, securities and environmental enforcement matters. Mr. Owen received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Clemson University and his J.D. from Northern Kentucky University, Salmon P. Chase College of Law.

Chair of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee

President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

BRET D. SCHOLTES has served as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer since January 1, 2012 and as a director since February 28, 2013. Prior thereto, Mr. Scholtes served as the Company’s Senior Vice President—Corporate Development from April 2010 to December 2010 and as the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from January 2011 to December 2011. From 2006 to April 2010, Mr. Scholtes served as a Vice President at GE Energy Financial Services, a global energy investment firm. Prior to that, Mr. Scholtes held positions with two publicly traded energy companies. Mr. Scholtes also has five years of public accounting experience.

Dr. Jonathan Shepherd served as Director General of The International Fishmeal and Fish Oil Organization (IFFO), an international non-profit organization which represents fish meal and fish oil producers and related trades throughout the world, from 2004 to 2011. Prior to this, Dr. Shepherd was Group Managing Director of BioMar, a fish feed company based in Denmark. Dr. Shepherd also held a series of senior positions with Unilever, Peter Hand and Norsk Hydro in connection with fish farming, pharmaceuticals, and feed manufacturing. Dr. Shepherd has a BVSc from Liverpool Veterinary School and a PhD from Stirling University.

Chair of the Scientific Committee

DAVID W. WEHLMANN has been a director of the Company since April 1, 2012. Mr. Wehlmann is currently a private investor. Mr. Wehlmann served as Executive Vice President, Investor Relations of Precision Drilling Corporation, a publicly traded oilfield services company, until March 2012. He assumed this position in December 2008 upon the acquisition of Grey Wolf, Inc. by Precision Drilling Corporation. Mr. Wehlmann previously served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Grey Wolf, Inc., a publicly traded oilfield services company, from March 2003. He was Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Grey Wolf, Inc. from February 1998 to March 2003. He joined Grey Wolf in July 1996 and served as Vice President and Controller. From 1991 to 1996, Mr. Wehlmann served in senior accounting roles with EnerVest Management Company L.C., a privately held oil and gas property acquisition and management company, and Convest Energy Corporation, a publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company. Mr. Wehlmann served as a director of Cano Petroleum, Inc., a publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company, from December 2007 until September 2010. Mr. Wehlmann is a Certified Public Accountant.

Chair of the Audit Committee

Member of the Compensation Committee