"Welcome To A Higher Standard of Excellence"• HighGround Dairy launched in 2012 by industry veteran, Eric Meyer. Affiliated with HighGround Trading Group, Eric is the President of the Dairy Division which services all those interested in trading dairy futures, options and OTC markets including milk, cheese, butter, non-fat dry milk and dry whey.• Through the brokerage division and its related companies, HighGround specializes in dairy hedging, risk management, market intelligence and insurance services for farmers & cooperatives, processors, manufacturers, distributors, traders and end-users.

• Managed Winona's customer cheese hedging program using futures, options, farm direct contracts & over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. • Interacted closely with Winona's customer base to educate and implement risk management plans that serviced the customer's hedging goals and objectives.• Provided dairy market research and analysis to support Winona's national sales team.

• Educated and advised dairy producers, processors, manufacturers, distributors, traders, end-users and FCStone's junior staff on dairy price risk management using knowledge from prior experiences at Downes-O'Neill and Sara Lee Corporation.• Created and implemented hedge strategies using dairy futures, options, OTC swaps and other derivatives.• Was an invited guest speaker at many industry seminars and conferences.

• Owned supplier relationships with over 20 dairy and corn sweetener companies providing raw materials to over 70 bakeries and meat processing plants. • Managed over $100 million in annual dairy and corn sweetener spend.• Active in hedging natural and process cheese, cream cheese, butter, dry whey, NFDM and corn using futures, options & OTC derivatives.

• Managed the development of the eDairy subscription website, the industry's first source for online dairy market news and analysis.• Led the transition for both internal staff and client base to electronic trading, now essential in dairy futures and options order execution. • Created educational dairy price risk management seminars nationwide and founded the annual Downes-O'Neill Outlook Conference in 2005 which still exists today.• Oversaw Downes-O'Neill's human resource, information technology, customer service and marketing departments and coordinated two office moves between 2002-2004.• Series 3 licensed since 2001.