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Skills and Experience

Nate brings deep dairy genetics expertise, a strong commercial focus and a passion for people development. He grew up on the Bomaz dairy farm in the US, which has produced high-ranking industry and ABS sires, before studying at the University of Wisconsin. Here, he obtained a degree in Dairy Science, an MBA and a PhD (focused on the genetic evaluation of health traits in dairy cattle).

Career

Nate joined Genus in January 2017 after 15 years at Alta Genetics. This included being Alta’s Advantage Program Manager, in which he redesigned progeny testing in partner herds. For his final ten years with the company, Nate led Alta’s successful US business as General Manager. Nate has a strong dairy industry network and sits on the Board of the Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding and is Vice President of the National Association of Animal Breeders.