Dan Paca Email & Phone Number

Rapid City, South Dakota, United States

Solon, Iowa, United States

Muscatine, Iowa, United States

• President of RR Holdings, the livestock ownership subsidiary of Kent Corporation
• Managed all direct to farm sales for Kent Nutrition Group encompassing 2\3 of the United States
• Matched open manufacturing capacity with large volume opportunities
• Direct Sales Team included 7 employees and 3 agents from South Dakota to the East Coast
• Oversaw the relationships with over 20 independent dairy\beef\swine consultants and any and all integrated opportunities
• Managed all toll manufacturing agreements with competitive companies within the industry

Sibley, Iowa, United States

• Managed all aspects of the Deluxe Feeds acquisition, 2 locations, 5 manufacturing mills and 3.5M bu. of grain drying and storage capacity…55 mill employees and 7 salespeople
• Integrated Deluxe Feeds into Kent Nutrition Group
• Oversaw grain bin construction project and processing mill facility with included 5 pellet mills, over $50M in project work completed
• Continued to oversee the entire Kent Nutrition Group Sales Department

Muscatine, Iowa, United States

• Managed seventy-two sales employees and livestock specialists in a seventeen-state area
• Accountable for entire sales department, including gross sales, financial budget, marketing, hiring, training, motivating and terminating sales staff
• Wrote and implemented sales and marketing divisions’ five-year business plans, bringing new products to all markets
• Planned and implemented International Sales division with sales calls and trade shows in Cuba, Korea, Vietnam, and Dubai
• Developed the Inside Sales Department at HQ and led the new sales strategy of direct marketing
• Revised all department job descriptions and sales commission programs

Muscatine, Iowa, United States

• Had complete responsibility of twenty-one feed manufacturing plants, freight and distribution, safety, engineering, regulatory compliance, quality control and over 400 employees throughout Kent Nutrition Group’s (KNG).
• Oversaw HAACP integration in all our manufacturing facilities
• Served as one of five individuals responsible and accountable for the financial success of KNG
• Decreased inventory values by over five million dollars within eleven plants in seven months
• Consolidated manufacturing efforts geographically and exited areas of poor profitability
• Developed and implemented “Power of One” strategy in Operations Department after corporate merger

• Responsible for dealer on farm sales and service, management of 18 Sales Managers, and eventually the entire Sales Force of 85 salespeople