Lon Tiggelaar - Vice President Project Development

Mr. Tiggelaar is an executive with over 22 years of experience in market and project development, multi-million dollar business operations, and large scale project management. As Vice President and Development Leader of a publicly traded consulting and business integration company, Mr. Tiggelaar was responsible for his unit’s project strategy and development, industry and partner relations, and overall financial performance. Under his leadership, Mr. Tiggelaar’s unit grew to 300 people with revenues exceeding $40M.  His clients include over 25 multi-billion dollar organizations.

Mr. Tiggelaar has leadership experience in business models that range from a small privately held Startup company to a publicly held global company with 6,000 employees.
From project strategy to full scale development, Mr. Tiggelaar has lead small development and R&D teams as well as large, multi-site development teams with over 100 team members.

Mr. Tiggelaar has leveraged his professional and personal business experience in the formation and funding of several ethanol and renewable energy ventures. Mr. Tiggelaar is a Principal in several private ventures and is a Rawhide Board of Director representative on two development stage Ethanol projects.

Mr. Tiggelaar graduated with highest honor from South Dakota State University majoring in Economics, with a Computer Science minor.