Businessmen, entrepreneur will be honored by Junior Achievement

CEDAR RAPIDS -- Three Corridor business leaders and a Coralville entrepreneur will be honored in September by Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa.

John Bloomhall of Diamond V Mills Inc., Tony Golobic with GreatAmerica Leasing Corp., and Jon Kinzenbaw of Kinze Manufacturing will be inducted as laureates into the  Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa Hall of Fame. Chris Klitgaard with MediRevv will receive the organization's Young Entrepreneur award.

Bloomhall, Golobic, Kinzenbaw and Klitgaard were nominated by community members and selected by an independent committee.  They will be inducted at a Sept. 27 black tie dinner at the Cedar Rapids Marriott.

Bloomhall, president and chief executive officer of Diamond V Mills, is the third generation of his family to lead the Cedar Rapids animal feed ingredient company. He has served on the board of directors of the Cedar Rapids Downtown Rotary Club; the board of trustees of Brucemore; Priority One (now the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance) and the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art board of trustees.

Bloomhall is a past president of the board of directors of Tanager Place and also serves on the Tanager Place Foundation. He also serves on the Indian Creek Nature Center board of trustees.

Golobic, chairman and chief executive officer of GreatAmerica Leasing, founded the Cedar Rapids-based business equipment financing business in 1992. He is a member of the board of trustees of Coe College, the board of trustees of Mercy Medical Center and the board of directors of CRST International Inc.

Golobic has been a member of the following boards of directors of the Orchestra Iowa, Village Bank & Trust Co., Equipment Leasing and Finance Association, Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation, National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library, Cedar Rapids Freedom Festival, and Eastern Iowa Enterprise Council.

Kinzenbaw is president and chief executive officer of Kinze Manufacturing in Williamsburg, a company that manufactures and markets its grain carts and planters worldwide. Kinzenbaw was 21 when founded Kinze Manufacturing in 1965 as a small welding shop in Ladora.

The first product Kinzenbaw manufactured and sold was a 13-knife, 30-foot anhydrous ammonia application toolbar. At the urging of local farmers, he developed a folding planter for easier transport and that set Kinzenbaw's business on a growth trajectory.

As his business grew, Kinzenbaw bought 10 acres of land just off Interstate 80 and moved his operation to Williamsburg. The company continued to have its offices and manufacturing facilities at that location.

Kinze Manufacturing, a family-owned company, employs more than 650 people and markets its products through a worldwide dealer network.

Klitgaard is founder and president of MediRevv, a healthcare revenue cycle management company. For nine years prior to forming MediRevv, Klitgaard  led the patient access, patient accounting and health information management functions at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and its associated physician group.