Grain Processing Corporation Promotes John Thorpe

Thorpe joined the company in 2002 as Sales Manager, Feed Ingredients. He was promoted to Vice President, Feed Ingredients in 2004, and in 2005 to Vice President, Industrial Starch Products.

1/18/2011 --- John Thorpe was recently appointed President of Grain Processing Corporation. Thorpe joined the company in 2002 as Sales Manager, Feed Ingredients. He was promoted to Vice President, Feed Ingredients in 2004, and in 2005 to Vice President, Industrial Starch Products.

In 2008 John was promoted to Vice President for Global Sales. He received his degree in Business Management from Silver Lake College, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and his MBA from the University of Iowa. John and his family reside in Muscatine, Iowa.

Grain Processing Corporation is a major manufacturer of grain neutral spirits, food and pharmaceutical starches, industrial starches, maltodextrins and corn syrup solids, dietary fibers, specialty products and animal nutritional ingredients. The Company markets its products worldwide.