Mike Bedessem: Chief Financial Officer

Mike Bedessem has been employed by Organic Valley as Chief Financial Officer since 1994. He has over 25 years of financial and information systems management experience with both regional and national firms.

As Chief Financial Officer of Organic Valley, Mike is responsible for Accounting, Finance, and Information Systems. He is committed to creating an environmentally sustainable and healthy food supply by enabling farmers and consumers to mutually support each other through their actions of growing and buying organic food.

Mike was a member of Cooperative Regions of Organic Producer Pools (CROPP), the farmer-owned cooperative that operates under the Organic Valley brand, from 1990-1997. As a member of CROPP, he was an owner and manager of Turkey Ridge Organic Orchard in Gays Mills, Wisconsin. Turkey Ridge continues to be the largest organic apple orchard in the Midwest. Mike also served on the Board of Directors for Organic Valley from 1992-1994.

Mike currently serves as School Board Clerk for North Crawford, Wisconsin Schools and is a member of the Gays Mills Development Association and the Gays Mills Lions Club. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting from St. Mary's College.

Mike lives in Gays Mills, Wisconsin and has five children.