BIOGRAPHY

Paul Rapnicki, DVM MBA

Director – Producer Services & DVM at Grande Cheese Company, Fond du Lac, WI

Professional Experience

Diverse portfolio of veterinary knowledge, professional skills, and dairy industry reputation resulting in a positive impact on every aspect of the production of high-quality milk and milk products.

Director – Producer Services & DVM, 2019 to present

Grande Cheese Company, Fond du Lac, WI

  • Quality Milk Production technical support for Grande Producer Dairies
  • Collaborates with executive leadership to develop and implement strategic goals, enhancing team performance and achieving key business objectives

Cattle Technical Consultant, 2012 – 2019

Elanco Animal Health, Greenfield, IN

  • Collaborate with a wide variety of business teams, including commercial operations, strategic account management, marketing, internal and external dairy training programs, food animal R&D, business development, and regulatory.
  • Business leadership experience.  Develop, organize and manage projects and product programs. Exceptional versatility, creativity, and adaptability in fast-paced environments.
  • Provide milk quality and production efficiency advice to dairy producers and veterinarians in value beyond product roles.
  • Superb interpersonal, supervisory, communication and coaching skills. High sense of integrity and ethics. Strong sense of teamwork and collaboration.

Clinical Professor – Dairy Production Medicine, 1998 – 2012

University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, Saint Paul, MN

  • Teaching expertise: academic, corporate, and consumer audiences. Knowledgeable in dairy herd production practices, milk quality and mastitis control practices, milking equipment analysis, dairy record systems, dairy stockmanship, production animal welfare evaluation and auditing, judicious drug use, and managerial use of on-farm metrics.
  • Invited speaker to national and international veterinary and dairy conferences.
  • Developed a dynamic and broad reaching world-wide network of dairy industry contacts.
  • Served as American Veterinary Medical Association/American Association of Bovine Practitioners liaison to National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments 1997 to 2013.

Veterinary Practitioner and Practice Owner, 1986 – 1998

Kiel Veterinary Clinic, Kiel, WI

  • General veterinary practice, emphasis on dairy medicine and surgery
  • Dairy herd health programs and computer record systems
  • Milk Quality consulting services

Education

  • Certified Six Sigma Green Belt – Eli Lilly and Company, 2017
  • MBA in Agriculture – University of Guelph, 2002
  • Advanced Graduate Degree in Management – Athabasca University, 2001
  • Doctor of Veterinary Medicine – Michigan State University, 1986
  • Bachelor of Science – Michigan State University, 1984