Hawkeye Gold Announces Key Addition to Distillers Marketing Team

AMES, Iowa, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Hawkeye Gold, LLC, a leading U.S. ethanol and distillers grains marketer, has announced a key addition to its distillers marketing team.  Tom Kopp has joined Hawkeye Gold as Export Manager – Asian Markets. Mr. Kopp has an extensive knowledge and customer base of containers in the Asian Market. Most recently he served as Vice President/General Manager of North Star Grain International, LLC and was responsible for Sales and Origination of all products.  He has over 20 years experience in Export and Domestic Sales, Merchandising, Procurement, and Marketing. Tom has a B.S. in Agriculture from the University of Wisconsin where he majored in Ag Education/Dairy Science and minored in Business.

"The talent and experience that Tom brings to the Hawkeye Gold team will be instrumental as we continue to develop and expand export markets for distillers grains," said Randy Ives, Senior Vice President of Hawkeye Gold.  "The increasing demand from Asian markets along with our strong presence in the rapidly growing Mexican market provides our current 10 affiliated plants and potential future production plants with the best opportunities to maximize revenue from their co- product sales."

Other recent additions at Hawkeye Gold include Greg Hibner, recently named President of Hawkeye Gold, as well as Chris Ludwig and James Sneed as part of the ethanol marketing team.

About Hawkeye Gold

Hawkeye Gold, LLC, which is a 100% owned subsidiary of Hawkeye Energy Holdings, is one of the leading ethanol and distillers grains marketers in the United States. Gold markets close to 700 million gallons of ethanol and over 2.7 million tons of distillers grains for several plants across the Midwest.  For more information, please visit www.hawkgold.com.

SOURCE Hawkeye Gold, LLC