board of directors
Jim Jackson
President
Jim took the role of President of the Munson Lakes Nutrition Board in January 2019. He is an employee of Land O’ Lakes and is the Upper Mid-West and Great lakes Region Director for Purina Animal Nutrition’s feed business. Jim has been in the Animal Feed business with Land O’ Lakes, serving in many sales and management roles, since 1980. He grew up in Northwest Ohio and graduated from Ohio State University. Jim resides in Greenfield, Indiana.
Mark Mickolichek
Vice President
Mark is currently serving as Secretary of the Glencoe Co-op Association Board and serves as Vice President on the Munson Lakes Nutrition Board. He enjoys serving on the board in the interest of the patrons. With his wife Patti and their four children, the Mickolicheck family operate a farm north of Silver Lake, MN, including 600 acres of corn, soybeans, and alfalfa, as well as 300 feeder cattle and beef cows.
Dale Hegland
Board Secretary, General Manager of Glencoe Cooperative
Mike McMahon
Chief Executive Officer of Federated Cooperative
He began his career with Apex Oil Company in St. Louis, MO. From there he spent 12 years with Ralston Purina Company in St Louis and then 11 years with Frito-Lay in various high-level management & sales positions based in Minneapolis, MN. He was recruited to lead sales and operations at Tree of Life based in St. Augustine, FL. Tree of Life is a distributor of Natural and Organic products. Mike joined the Co-op from Schwan Home Service based in Marshall, MN, where he managed $1B in revenue and services to over 1.8 million customers in 48 states. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia with a BSBA-Finance.