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Tina Jones Interview with Greg Styers-Southeastern Regional Manager of Bejo

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Please let me introduce Greg Styers with BEJO Seeds.

 

Tell me a little about your education and career background

 

I began my career in agriculture at age 14 working as a detassler for a hybrid seed corn company, Doebler’s Hybrids, in PA.  A detassler manually removes the tassel from a corn plant so it cannot pollinate itself and disrupt the hybrid process.  I continued with this company working in production, distribution, and general farming all the way through college where I studied Business Management. From Doebler’s, I moved to Bejo Seeds in 1995 where I began as a Product Development Specialist covering all of the Eastern United States and Eastern Canada.

 

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Katherine Pearson ENT 645 Interview with Dusk Stroud, Owner of Signature Neuse Company

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Interview Dusk Stroud, Owner of Signature Neuse Company

  1. Talk to me about your background/history
  • I graduated from Lenoir Community College in 2015. I transferred to East Carolina University to student Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing. Upon graduation in 2017, I returned to Lenoir Community to college to work full-time. I also began my Masters of Business Administration from the University of Mount Olive. After graduation in 2018, I sought out a doctorate program in higher education. In the summer of 2019 I enrolled in the Doctor of Higher Education Administration from East Carolina University. In the spring of 2020 I transitioned into the role of Director of Admissions and Enrollment Management at Lenoir Community College.
  1. Talk to me about your business. How did you come up with your name?

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Written Interviews ENT 640

follow the numbers

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Written by: Elaina Hamilton (ENT 640 – Summer 2020)

For some, looking at numbers can feel the same every day. Not for Vanessa Tyson. For Vanessa, there is not a typical day. She loves numbers because “they tell a story”. She says “The fun of it is you can go back and look at the spend and how it has changed. Financial statements and budget should support what your mission statement is about.”

She has worked in public accounting for 20 years. She’s so good at what she does that she molds and directs others to “see the financial story”, as well. In her current role, she is a Financial Reporting and Budgeting Manager. What that means is that she is creating budgets and analyzing spending.

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