Chris brings over a decade of professional experience in the ag industry, holding roles in procurement, sales, and sales management. Throughout his career, Chris has focused on being efficient, discovering synergies that equate to wins for all parties involved, and above all else, providing paramount customer service.

Chris started his professional career with Monsanto after graduating from Western Michigan University’s Integrated Supply Chain Management program in 2009. While starting in Global Procurement as a Buyer then Category Manager, he had a passion for agriculture and sought opportunities to get closer to the customer. In 2012, Chris became a District Sales Manager for Stone Seed in Southern IL. For 4 years Chris cultivated a sales territory that focused on strong relationships and superior product performance. Success with Stone was rewarded with an opportunity to develop in another area that would become a strong passion, team and people development. In 2016 Chris accepted a role leading the DEKALB Asgrow Team in Wisconsin. For 6 years Chris managed a highly talented sales team and worked closely with many different distributors across the state to deliver industry leading seed, traits, crop protection and digital solutions to farmer customers.

While starting his career in Corporate America was a great opportunity, the desire to be a part of something cutting edge with an entrepreneurial component was strong. By joining the Integrated Seed Solutions team, Chris gets to realize and far exceed his career aspirations.

Allen is a self proclaimed “farm-kid” who was born and raised in Flanagan, Illinois. He is a 2006 graduate of Illinois State University. Allen’s entire career has been devoted to agriculture. Starting at a very young age, he has always been fascinated by “all things farming.”

Allen spent nearly eleven years working as a District Sales Manager for the Moews Seed Company. During this time, he developed relationships with farmers and dealers throughout the state of Illinois. Allen always looked for opportunities to do what was right for the customer with a focus on the long-term relationship rather than a short-term sales opportunity. He developed many very strong relationships over that period.

As time went on, Allen was needing to spend more and more time running the day to day operations of a growing farm business, so he exited his role with Moews. While his duties managing the farm operation became his primary focus, he wanted to maintain the relationships he had built over the previous eleven years. This led him to take on a dealership with Stone Seed. His customers were very happy to experience the product line that Allen was able to bring them with his new dealership, while still providing them with the customer service that they had come to expect.

Along with his brother, Allen saw the opportunity to create a first-class experience for his customer base by starting Integrated Seed Solutions. Allen serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Integrated Seed Solutions, but also retains an active sales role. Allen continues to service many of his original customers today with corn, soybean, and Amplify products. He is a big believer in always doing what is best for the customer and letting everything else fall into place.

Because Allen’s first love in agriculture remains on the farming side of the business, he is always sure to focus on the customer experience. Within Integrated Seed Solutions, Allen keeps a clear focus on how every decision ultimately impacts the grower. Whether it is pricing, timing, or ease of doing business, Allen is constantly focusing on ensuring that our customers are getting a tremendous experience at a very fair price.

John is a 2001 graduate of Illinois State University. He has spent a majority of his career in the field of agriculture. He also has extensive experience in real estate management, procurement, and development. Additionally, he has spent time as a County Board Member and nearly 20 years as a Township Trustee. John has a very entrepreneurial mindset, which has frequently led to “wearing more than one hat at a time.”

Upon graduation, John quickly got familiar with small business as the Operations Manager for a Soil Sampling and Crop Scouting business. This role also exposed John to the seed sales world, with the Pioneer Seed Brand. Intrigued by the Seeds and Traits business, John took a role in seed sales for Monsanto as a District Sales Manager. After a decorated sales career, he was ultimately promoted to Area Business Manager. In that role, he had responsibility for managing the sales team of the Stone Seed brand in Northern Illinois. As the Area Business Manager, he sat on the Regional Leadership Team, which gave him great insight to the inner workings of corporate America. John was responsible for managing all sales activities, budgeting, marketing, and forecasting for the Stone Seed Brand. This brand was part of a multi-brand strategy implemented by corporate Monsanto. John had a front row seat to watch the merger activities when Bayer Corporation completed a buy-out of Monsanto in 2018. Ultimately, John realized that there wasn’t a lot of further opportunity in the corporate world if he wasn’t willing to move his family and focus solely on that part of his career. After 14 years, knowing that much had already been learned from the corporate experience, John, along with his brother Allen, decided to start Integrated Seed Solutions and focus on finding ways to deliver world class products to farmers in a very customer-centric manner.

In addition to Integrated Seed Solutions, John and his brother also have built and run a successful row-crop farming operation. This experience has allowed John to look at the world not only from the perspective of a sales person but also from the viewpoint of the grower.

In simplest terms, John feels strongly that the products developed by the world class R+D pipelines housed in large corporations are great for farmers and their families (and ultimately farm-gate profitability), however, the corporate way of marketing, selling, and delivering those products to farm gate is incredibly flawed and inefficient. John’s vision for Integrated Seed Solutions has focused heavily on creating a best-in-class sales team and pairing that team with the world-class products developed by our large corporate partners. Ultimately, John’s vision is to deliver these products to our customers in a very simple and straightforward way that utilizes a common sense approach to pricing and experience.

John is a huge believer in always looking for synergies that can benefit everyone in a given situation. He calls it the 1 + 1 = 3 method. With Integrated Seed Solutions, John believes strongly that there is a perfect opportunity to create a business model that is beneficial first and foremost to our customers and dealers, while at the same time creating benefit for our business and, also, our corporate partners.