Staff & Board Members

Staff

Jennifer Feist
Director of Development
vdg@hellovalley.com
701.840.7820

Trinity Nelson
Resource Development Specialist
vdgrds@hellovalley.com
701.490.3530

Kara Fike-Anderson
Employee Retention & Recruiting Coordinator
recruit@hellovalley.com
701.490.3536

Board of Directors

Josh Kasowski President Bank Forward	Mary Lee Nielson President-Elect Agriculture	Bill Carlblom Director Barnes County Commission
Bobby Koepplin Director Retired	Dean Kinney Director RKS Sales & Service	Dick Gulmon Director City Commissioner
George Gaukler Director Valley Realty	Pete Paulson Director County Commissioner	Luke Trapp Director Summit Properties
Mary Simonson Director Open Door Center	Matt Pedersen Director Ludvigson & Braun LLP	Mike Bishop Director City Commissioner
Paige Bjornson Director Dacotah Bank	Paul Diegel Director Six D Construction	Wade Bruns Director Agriculture

Ex-Officio Members

Chad Petersen KLJ	Derrick Bopp VC Area Career & Technology Center	Josh Johnson Valley City Public Schools, Superintendent
Dr. Alan LaFave VCSU, President	David Beierle John Deere Seeding Group