The Dairy Business Association (DBA) is pleased to announce Tim Griswold as their Director of Business Development. In this newly created position, Griswold will focus on bringing DBA membership benefits to more businesses – both dairy producers and corporate businesses. Griswold will also assist DBA Executive Director Laurie Fischer with communicating dairy industry issues to legislators and regulators.
Griswold comes to DBA with a wealth of experience within the dairy industry, particularliy in sales, business development and dairy expansion. He will utilize his broad experience to maximize the effectiveness of the organization and bring value to DBA members.
Since DBA was founded ten years ago, Griswold has assisted the association. Originally serving as an advisor to the association, he was later elected to the Board of Directors in 2007. Griswold resigned his seat on the DBA Board of Directors to accept this position.
Since 2004, Griswold has sold Posilac to commercial dairy producers in Wisconsin. He was initially with Monsanto and then with Elanco Animal Health, when they purchased the Posilac business in 2008 to add to their product portfolio. Griswold served as the Executive Director of the Dairy 2020 Initiative at the Wisconsin Department of Commece from 1998 to 2004 where he promoted industry reinvestment by assisting with dairy business expansion projects.
Griswold is a 1989 graduate of the UW-Madison with a degree in Agricultural Journalism. He was raised on a dairy farm in southeastern Wisconsin. Griswold and his wife, Jane, have three children, Kate, Sara, and James. They have lived in Black Earth, Wisconsin for seventeen years where they operate a small hobby farm.