Troy Grove
Berner Foods CIO
Dakota, IL
Troy Grove is the CIO for Berner Food and Beverage LLC, located in Dakota, Illinois. Prior to joining Berner Foods in 1998, Troy spent over 11 years with Newell/Rubbermaid where he gained significant business process experience as the project manager for ERP/CRM/EAI/ ECM/MES/CMMS/BI implementations. Prior to that he was an application programmer for the former Economy Fire & Casualty Co. and enlisted as an Army Reservist with a unit based in Chicago, IL. He holds a BS in computer science/math from Iowa Wesleyan College, and he is an honor graduate of the U.S. Army computer science school.
Troy has been quoted in food manufacturing and executive publications in articles related to ERP selection and implementation, compliance, and traceability. During his time at Berner, he has been actively involved with the EUC and Ross user groups and events. Berner uses the Aptean software solutions Ross ERP with Data Collection and Extended EDI, Factory MES, EMF, Advanced Reporting and Tabware CMMS.