Osborn Named 2008 Rumler Scholarship Recipient

Brattleboro, Vermont (June 16, 2008)…Kasey Osborn, Genoa, New York, is the 2008 Robert H. Rumler Scholarship winner. Kasey is currently enrolled in the HEC MBA Program at the HEC School of Management in Paris, France with an anticipated May 2009 graduation date.

“Having an MBA will make a tremendous difference to me as a potential agri-business leader,” Osborn said. “It will create a more global perspective and provide credibility to not only myself, but our industry in general.”

Osborn's vision is focused on making a positive impact on the dairy industry and he realizes significant changes will be required to make the industry competitive on a worldwide basis. To build on his dairy management and animal health expertise gained in the U.S., he is one of only two Americans in his MBA class, made up people mostly from Europe, Asia and South America.

At age 27, Osborn has achieved academic and professional excellence well beyond his years. As an animal science undergraduate student at Cornell University, his talents were noticed quickly.

“Due to Kasey's acedemic prowess, he was admitted into Cornell's School of Veterinary Medicine, the top ranked veterinary school in the U.S., as a third year undergraduate student.” said Michael E. Van Amburgh, Associate Professor, Cornell University. “He is one of less than eight of our undergraduate students in the last ten years to achieve such a feat, and that demonstrates his tremendous intellectual capacity and maturity.”

After completing veterinary school, Osborn continued on to his true passion in broader dairy management consulting with Linwood Management Group. They hire outstanding professionals to go into currently operating dairy facilities to improve their management, labor, productivity and profitability. On the 2,000-cow dairy, Osborn managed everything from cow care to personnel, while also serving as staff veterinarian.

To further challenge himself, Osborn then accepted a lecturer position at Cornell.  He developed and taught the undergraduate class “Evidenced Based Decision Making on Farms” that integrated financial and production management aspects of dairy farm management. He even worked as a large animal emergency clinician for Midstates Veterinary Clinic on nights and weekends.

Osborn's quickly advancing career has left many cheerleaders behind. Among them, John A. Noble, Linwood Management Group, said, “It was hard for us to lose a blossoming star, but exciting to be a part in helping to encourage an individual committed to this industry.”