NBB Grows Washington, DC, Staff Team
April 5, 2019
BY The National Biodiesel Board
The National Biodiesel Board is rounding out its staff in Washington, D.C., this year. Headquartered in Jefferson City, Missouri, NBB maintains a Washington office for federal affairs and work on regulatory issues surrounding international trade, tax issues and the federal Renewable Fuel Standard.
This year two new staff members joined the NBB team, Kate Shenk as director of regulatory affairs and David W. Cobb as director of federal affairs, neither of whom is a stranger to biodiesel.
Shenk comes to NBB from the Biotechnology Innovation Organization where she led a regulatory affairs committee and developed analyses and comments on regulatory policies.
Cobb recently served as federal affairs director for CHS Inc., a Fortune 100 company and the nation’s largest farmer-owned cooperative, where he advocated for the company’s legislative and regulatory policy priorities.
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