Mike Helgeson, CEO of GNP Company, was elected 2013-14 chairman of the National Chicken Council.
Mike Helgeson, CEO of GNP Company, St. Cloud, Minn., was elected to serve as 2013-2014 chairman of the National Chicken Council (NCC). Helgeson and other officers were named October 1 during NCC's board of directors meeting held in Washington, D.C.
"It's a great honor to serve as the incoming chair for the National Chicken Council, and I look forward to serving the chicken industry in the upcoming year," Helgeson said. "Ours is a vibrant and dynamic industry, one with great opportunities as well as ongoing challenges. As I take the gavel today, I'm optimistic that we'll continue to step up to not only meet but exceed the challenges and opportunities the next year will bring us."
Helgeson has served as CEO and a member of the board of directors of GNP Company (formerly Gold'n Plump Poultry) since 1993. He joined the company in 1974 and worked in various divisions, including new products manager in the sales and marketing division, project manager in the broiler division, personnel manager at the Cold Spring, Minn., processing plant, and purchasing/elevator manager in the feed and grain division. He spent his first two years in Indonesia researching and developing a broiler operation.
Helgeson holds a BS degree in business from Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn., and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas, Kotz Graduate School of Management. He lives near St. Cloud with his wife, Karel. They have two grown sons.
Serving as vice chairman for 2013-2014 is Jerry Lane, president of Claxton Poultry in Claxton, Ga.
Lane, a veteran of 34 years in Georgia's poultry industry, has been with Claxton Poultry since 1985, serving as general manager and vice president. He was named president of the company in 1997. Prior to joining Claxton, Lane began his poultry career at Mar Jac Poultry in 1978.
He has held a variety of leadership roles with a number of local and national poultry groups and associations, including serving as: a member of the NCC Board of Directors; a member of the Georgia Governors Agriculture Commission; president, senior vice president and board member of the Georgia Poultry Federation; past chairman, Georgia Poultry Improvement Association; and a board member of N.W. Fries, Inc. and Claxton Bank. He is also a life member of the Poultry Leaders Roundtable.
Lane graduated in 1972 from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Industrial and Systems
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