The Team
James Broghammer, ALL Energy Company-
Founder; Pacesetter Management-President. James has worked for 20 years
leading various operations that process corn into Ethanol, Corn syrup,
Fructose, Pharmaceutical sugars, food starches and industrial grade
starches. His experience includes employment with Archer Daniels Midland,
Penford Products Company, Pacesetter Management Group and a Joint Venture
with Cargill. James is the President of Pacesetter Management Group
which is responsible for current operations of Ace Ethanol and Pine
Lake Corn Processors. In addition, Pacesetter has long term management
contracts with SW Energy for a plant to be built in McCook Nebraska
and another contract with Stonic Energy for a plant to be built in Augusta,
Wisconsin. Pacesetter also has letters of intent from three other operations
totaling 400mmgpy year of capacity. By the end of 2007 Pacesetter Management
group will be managing over 600 MMGPY of capacity. At Penford Products
Company James was the Director of Operations where he led the operations
group to implement over 14 million dollars of annual savings and led
the plant to a 50% improvement in productivity. In this time frame Penford
went from being the highest cost producer to nearly the lowest cost
producer. In addition, to the lowering of the cost structure, James
led the initiative to implement the ISO 9000 process for an entire wet
corn milling facility. Today, Penford is still the only wet corn milling
facility that is ISO 9000 approved. Pacesetter and James took over the
operation at Ace ethanol in January 2005. Since this time the production
has moved up 20%, the safety incidents have been reduced in half and
the plant is now in environmental compliance. The profit of the plant
went from a loss of $4M in 2004 to a profit of $6M is 2005, and a projected
profit of $26M in 2006. The company will be out of debt in October and
the current shareholders have offers to purchase the company at a return
of several times the original investment. James joined the Pine Lake
Corn Processors team before the financial close. James oversaw the permitting,
construction, startup and the pending expansion at Pine Lake. Pine Lake
had one of the most successful startups; Reaching 110% of rating capacity
in the second month of operation and in April enjoyed an operating rate
of 131% of design. James is also the President of Iowa River Railroad.
Iowa River railroad began operation this year and is the first short
line railroad started in Iowa in over twenty years. The 42 mile track
runs from Marshalltown, Iowa to Ackley Iowa. The rail line is connected
to the UP in Marshalltown and the CN in Ackley. James responsibility
included bringing the group of four investors together, negotiating
the contracts with the CN and UP, writing the business plan and obtaining
the funding and working towards bringing the line into full operation.
Scott Zabler, ALL Energy Company-Founder;
Pacesetter Management. Scott grew up near Chicago Illinois. College
included four years at Purdue University earning a BS in Agriculture
Economics. For the past 25 years, Scott has worked for Ralston Purina,
FC Stone, Penford Products, and Verasun Energy. His experience includes
all aspects of grain merchandising, such as buying, futures and options
trading, risk management. Along with grain merchandising Scott was also
involved with the selling of the different co-products from the wet
milling industry. For the past two years Scott was the Commodity Manager
for Verasun Energy. His role included buying the corn, selling of the
dry and wet distiller’s grains, coordination of the selling of
the ethanol and the overall risk management for Verasun.
Mark Leonard, ALL Energy Company-Founder
and Advisor; Leo-Land, Inc., Founder and CEO. Mark Leonard has been
involved in production agriculture and marketing valued added Ag products
nationally his entire adult life and internationally for over 20 years.
The family operation encompasses crop land and 400 head of registered
Limousine and Angus breeding females. His career in banking began in
1990 and he is presently the owner of Ag-Com Financial Services providing
credit needs to agriculture and commercial borrowers in a 4 state area.
Mark was appointed by Gov. Branstad to serve as a Director of the Iowa
Agricultural Development Authority where he served 17 years, 4 years
as Chairman, overseeing the Beginning Farmer Loan programs for the state
of Iowa. He has also served as a Director of the National Assoc. of
Rural Rehabilitation Corporations, serving as liaison between USDA and
the Rural Economic Development groups of each state. Mark was an original
shareholder in Quad County Corn Processors, an ethanol plant located
near his farm headquarters. He has provided financing to many banking
clients, enabling them to be shareholders in the renewable energy industry.
With over 20 years of active political involvement and work on issues
affecting economic development, he has access to policy makers at the
state and national levels. Mark has a B.S. in Animal Science from Iowa
State University and has been an instructor at the Iowa Bankers Assoc.
Ag Credit School.