ICM President and CEO Dave Vander Griend grew up on a farm outside Sheldon, IA and has made it his mission to help sustain agriculture by finding innovative ways to turn grain into renewable energy, such as ethanol.

With a strong design and fabrication background, he began working in the ethanol industry when it was just getting started in the early 1970s. Prior to founding ICM, Vander Griend was Vice President of Operations for High Plains Corporation (now Abengoa Bioenergy. He left High Plains in early 1995 to start ICM, headquartered in Colwich, KS. As of May 2006, the company had grown from 20 employees to more than 400.

Vander Griend and the ICM team are driven to increase value for their customers by finding new, creative ways to make ethanol production more efficient. In recognition of his contributions, he received the Distinguished Service Award at the 2003 BBI International Fuel Ethanol Workshop (FEW) for helping the ethanol industry increase efficiencies and refine methods of practical applications during the past 20 years.

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