Brian Rice is the founder and Co-Owner of Rice Dairy LLC, a dairy brokerage firm in Chicago, IL. He started his career as an order clerk for First American Corp. and a trader for the Iowa Grain Company before founding Rice Dairy in 2002. Seventeen years later, Rice Dairy is now the leading brokerage firm in the dairy industry, offering consulting and brokerage services along with information products and educational resources. Rice is also the CEO of Vault Technologies, a dairy software business and the Co-Owner of Rice Dairy Risk Services LLC, an insurance agency for dairy. Outside of work, Brian and his wife Mindi keep busy raising their three daughters outside of Chicago.