October 2000 Leading A.I. Organization Names Keene Head of Communications PLAIN CITY, Ohio, Oct. 24, 2000 - Select Sires has announced the hiring of Janice Keene as its vice president of corporate communications. In this role she will lead a team that manages customer, member and employee communications to support Select Sires' industry-leading corporate image and its wide array of products. She will relocate to Select Sires' headquarters in Plain City, Ohio. Most recently, Keene served as director of corporate communications, North America, for Merial, Iselin, N.J., the world's largest animal-health company. In addition to gaining experience at both public relations and advertising agencies, she worked in marketing research and sales for Elanco Animal Health, Indianapolis, and as a communications specialist for the American Guernsey Association, Columbus, Ohio, and the Ohio Holstein Association, Wooster, Ohio. A past president of National Dairy Shrine and chairman of the Animal Health Institute's Public Information Committee, Keene holds a bachelor's degree in dairy science/international studies from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, and a master's degree in business administration from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Select Sires is a federation of 10 farmer-owned and controlled cooperatives, serving the largest number of cooperative members in the United States. It provides excellence in sires, service and programs to achieve its basic objective of supplying livestock breeders with America's best genetics at a reasonable price. Copyright 1996-2000 Select Sires Inc. Last updated 4-Dec-2000. Web Site Design by Point & Click Software, Inc.