Greg Hibner

Background

About Greg Hibner

I am Vice President of Business Development for J.D. Heiskell formerly President of Hawkeye Gold, a wholly owned subsidiary of JD Heiskell. Hawkeye Gold specializes in marketing distiller’s grains and ethanol. We also trade DDGs, grains, and other feed ingredients both domestically and in the export channels. Hawkeye Gold also helps manage four feed mills in New York, Vermont, and Maine named Gold Star Feed and grain. For nearly 30 years and counting, I have been working in grains, feed ingredients and ethanol. Prior to Hawkeye Gold, I spent two decades working in Tate & Lyle’s commodity division. While there, I gained valuable experience in commodity risk management, corn origination, futures/options, product sales, logistics, and ethanol marketing. When I left Tate and Lyle, I was the manager of Co-Product Sales and Trading. All my life, I have had a passion for agriculture. Over the last 30 years, I have expanded a small 80-acre farm into over acres. Additionally, I co-founded a 2,600-head cattle-feeding operation that fed primarily corn co-products. I graduated from the Illinois Agricultural Leadership program in 1984. I am a 1987 graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in Business Administration (Summa Cum Laude). My wife, Kim, is a strong-willed schoolteacher. We have two sons. Nathan is a senior software developer for LinkedIn located in Sunnyvale, California. Nathan graduated from the University of Illinois in Engineering (Bronze Tablet Honors). Eric is a senior at Iowa State majoring in Chemical engineering and will be graduating in May of 2017. Eric has accepted a position with Procter and Gamble in Iowa City, Iowa beginning after graduation.