Neenah, WI—WOW Logistics recently promoted Bill Myers to chief technology officer.

Myers started with WOW Logistics in 2019 as director of software development. Late last year, he was promoted to vice president of technology, where he oversaw IT infrastructure, software development, product management and support. Myers developed and managed infrastructure and software that scaled with WOW Logistics and its clients.

As chief technology officer, Myers is also responsible for strategizing and optimizing new and existing solutions for improving customer experience, implementing competitive services, providing clear technology and product process roadmaps, and ensuring system availability, data protection, and security.

Myers’s short-term goal is to continue improving data tools to provide automated insights, while his future objective is to offer a new warehouse technology system to customers that will bring management and visibility to key performance indicators across an entire warehouse.

Meanwhile WOW Logistics has hired Jamie Sager as its new real estate and leasing manager. Sager most recently served as leasing manager for Hendricks Commercial Properties, where she oversaw roughly five million square feet of retail, office, and industrial space.

In her new role, Sager will be responsible for facilitating real estate development opportunities, overseeing lease customer relationships, coordinating inspections, ensuring contract compliance, and assisting with industrial build-to-lease development and real estate acquisition qualifications.

Buitoni Food Company has appointed GRAHAM CORNECK as its new president and CEO. Corneck will be succeed PETER WILSON, who will rejoin Brynwood Partners as managing director and chairman of Buitoni Foods. In June 2020, Buitoni Foods was established by Brynwood Partners to acquire the North American Buitoni business from Nestlé USA. Prior to joining Buitoni Foods, Corneck worked for many years at Campbell Soup Company and Popcorn Indiana in-finance, strategy, supply chain and business integration roles.

RECOGNITION

Bongards Creameries here has earned the Industrial Water Quality Achievement Award from the Water Environment Federation (WEF) for its significant, lasting, and measurable excellence in water quality improvement. Since 2015, Bongards has had a 28 percent reduction in wastewater production, and a 40 percent reduction in potable water used per pound of milk processed – all while increasing milk processing by 60 percent. The increase in milk processing, however, caused an increase in the “salt whey” byproduct, which added to the loading on the wastewater treatment facility. As a solution, Bongards found a way to turn the by-product into a viable feed product, licensed to sell to local farmers.

Dairy Farmer KENTON HOLLE of Mandan, ND, has been selected by the National Dairy Promotion & Research Board (NDB) as this year’s recipient of the Richard E. Lyng Award for his contributions and service to dairy promotion. Holle was recognized this month at the joint annual meeting of NDB, National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and the United Dairy Industry Association (UDIA) in Las Vegas. Holle served as chair of NDB in 2013-14. NDB will contribute $2,500 in Holle’s name to North Dakota State University’s College of Human Sciences and Education.

Jim Kraemer, Longtime Owner Of Kraemer Wisconsin Cheese, Dies

Watertown, WI—James Kraemer, 90, longtime owner of Kraemer Wisconsin Cheese, died here Dec. 7, 2021.

Kraemer first entered the dairy industry at age seven, when he started working the family milk route in 1938. He married Joanne Oestreich in 1955, and together they owned and operated Kraemer Wisconsin Cheese in Watertown for 43 years.

The couple worked to build the business, scouring the state to find the finest cheeses and, in the process, grooming the next generation of Kraemers.

In 2010, Kraemer Wisconsin Cheese captured the Best of Class Award in the World Championship Cheese Contest with its Cheddar with Beer cold pack cheese food – a product that took the company almost 10 years to develop, and has since become increasingly popular.