Alumni Awards - Young Alumni Achievement Award — Jeff
Burnison ’93
The Young Alumni Achievement Award is presented to an alum who has graduated from Central College in the last 15 years and has demonstrated significant professional and personal accomplishments since graduation. This year’s award goes to Jeff Burnison of Grimes.
After graduating from Central in 1993 with a degree in accounting, Burnison began his career as an auditor with Ernst and Young in Des Moines, ending up an audit manager. Burnison joined Pioneer Hi-Bred International, where he chaired Pioneer’s Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) project and helped develop the SOX program for DuPont, a multi-national chemicals and health-care company. He received a master’s degree from Drake University.
He is now corporate controller at Pioneer and serves on the company’s finance leadership team. In the past, he served on Central’s Business Advisory Council, taught junior achievement classes and mentored college accounting students, and he also is an active volunteer in the community.
