Ron Blitch, CIO. Tessenderlo-Kerley Inc., is 2011's Ron Storm Award Recipient

This year’s recipient exemplified all of the characteristics that made Ron such a valued member of RAPID. He has been involved with the CIO Roundtable, RAPID and AgGateway for a good number of years. Instrumental in not only becoming involved himself, he was also able get his entire organization to realize the benefits of belonging and participating in AgGateway. His staff has been encouraged become involved in many taskforces, committees, the Management Team and projects under his leadership. As a member of AgGateway, his company has successfully completed the CNC project and Ron has been a Chair person of the Crop Nutrition Council. As one of the "Founding Fathers" of AgGateway and serving as the board chair during the early years, Ron has been instrumental in the organization since its very beginning. We are honored to name him as 2011's Ron Storm Award Recipient.

The Ron Storms Memorial Award recognizes lifetime volunteer contributions in the area of electronic commerce in the Agri-business industry. For more information, please click here.