as of January 17, 2017
Jay Vroom has served as President and CEO of the trade association known as CropLife America (CLA) since 1989. CLA is the leading U.S. trade group for the crop protection industry in the U.S.
Vroom is a founding member of the CropLife Foundation, serving as chairman since its inception in 2001, and now serves as the Foundation's Vice-Chair, since 2015.
His sits of the Board of Directors for the Agricultural Retailers Association, Asmark, National Wheat Foundation, the National Association of Manufacturers Council of Manufacturing Associations, and the Soil Health Institute. He is also a member of the Farm Foundation Roundtable Steering Committee, and the North American Climate Smart Ag Alliance Steering Committee.
Vroom was a member of the youth organization, Future Farmers of America, and served as an elected state officer in Illinois. Today, he is a member of the FFA Foundation's Individual Giving Council and Board of Trustees.
Vroom co-chairs the Coalition for the Advancement of Precision Agriculture and the CEO Council.
He is a member of the Friends of the National Arboretum (FONA) FONA Council.
He graduated with honors from the College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Vroom was raised on a grain and livestock farm in north-central Illinois and continues to own the farming operation.
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