The Council of Dairy Cattle Breeding welcomes three new staff members that joined the team in the newly relocated office in Bowie, MD. They each bring a background of experience ready to perform the duties and responsibilities of the assigned positions.

Jay Megonigal has moved from his AGIL position to the CDCB position of Data Scientist, starting July 13, 2015. Jay brings with him the knowledge of the U.S. evaluation systems and will play a key role not only on the transition of the services but also on the operations going forward. Kendra Randall, the new CDCB Administrative Assistant, will be coordinating office procedures, maintaining administrative records, and providing secretarial support to the CEO and Board of Directors. Finally, Kaori Tokuhisa left her position at Genus pIc for the CDCB position of Genomic Data Analyst, and will be performing data quality procedures to genomic records entering the CDCB system, consolidating data from different sources and types in preparation for analytical procedures, and conducting genomic analyses. Both Kendra and Kaori started work on July 20, 2015.

Council on Diary Cattle BreedingAbout CDCB
The Council of Dairy Cattle Breeding (http://www.cdcb.us ) is a non-profit organization responsible for calculating and distributing the genetic evaluations and genomic predictions, for managing data storage, and for analyzing and distributing dairy cattle data.

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7.23.2015