ABOUT SEACOLE

Chemistry solutions that drive your business.

Push past the boundaries of innovation to address your toughest chemistry challenges while staying true to your high standards for performance, safety, and sustainability. Driven by curiosity and passion for getting things right, the Seacole chemical manufacturing team uses their technical expertise to find or formulate the chemistry solution you require.

Customers choose Seacole for our extensive technical expertise, our ability to quickly adapt to new markets, and our wide product range. They appreciate our dedication to environmental sustainability and the safety of our community.

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Seacole Leadership

Our dedicated and talented team is focused on the long-term success of our customers. The leaders at the top support our chemical manufacturing team in providing the superior quality and service that strengthen our customer relationships.

Seacole Leadership Team Gregg Elliott

Gregg Elliott

President & CEO
Seacole Leadership Team John Bell

John Bell

CFO, General Manager
Seacole Leadership Team Angell Field

Angell Field

Director of Office Operations
Seacole Leadership Team Romel Virasami

Romel Virasami

Vice President of Operations
Seacole Leadership Team Jason Dorschner

Jason Dorschner

Industrial Sales Manager
Seacole Leadership Team Tom Vander Heiden

Tom Vander Heiden

General Manager
for ST Biologicals & Phyton Corporation

Why CHOOSE Seacole?

Chemistry Solutions that Drive Your Business

Work with Seacole to find solutions to your most complex challenges. Our talented, passionate team can optimize existing chemistries for your operation or develop new formulations tailored to your specific demands.

When we partner together, Seacole provides all of the necessary resources to address your toughest challenges. With our commitment to the strictest quality standards and our environmentally conscious approach, we’ll take care of you and help you take care of your customers.

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Developing Chemistry with Our Customers, and Harmony with Our Environment

Seacole’s passion is to provide specialty chemistry and expertise to the industrial and agricultural marketplace.
  • Consistent Quality
  • Customer Focused Technical Support
  • Experienced Process Expertise

Our Core Values

  • Integrity – ethical, honest and trustworthy
  • Safety – responsible, compliant, preventative, risk-aware
  • Collaboration – team-oriented, accountable, partnership focused
  • Supportive – reliable, helpful, approachable and accessible
  • Driven Culture – dedicated, disciplined and professional
  • Innovation – creative, inventive, resourceful, problem solving
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Seacole Environmentally Responsible Chemistry

Our Commitment and Responsibility to the Environment

To be green or environmentally friendly at the most basic level is to execute decisions, manage operations, and manufacture products with the purpose of minimizing the negative impact on people, nature, and the environment.

At Seacole, we strive for purposeful design and formulation of chemistry to prevent, reduce, or eliminate the generation of hazardous products following the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry, endorsed by the American Chemical Society.

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Gregg Elliott

Founder, Owner and CEO
Gregg earned a B.A. in Chemistry and Biology at St. Olaf College in 1980, and continued his education as a Research Associate in neurology at the Mayo Clinic and U of M graduate work in Physiology, while working part-time at the University of Minnesota Hospitals. Gregg began his career in the chemical business with JT Baker Chemical, Phillipsburg New Jersey. He spent five years there as a Technical Sales Representative responsible for a five state region in the upper Midwest. He then started working for Hawkins Chemical, a major chemical company headquartered in Minneapolis. Gregg spent sixteen years with Hawkins in Sales, marketing and then as a Business Manager. In 2002, Gregg founded Seacole and became the President, and CEO. Gregg is active in the Minnesota CEO Roundtable, Lake Minnetonka Excelsior Rotary Club, and in his church. In his youth, Gregg was an Eagle Scout and an AFS exchange student to Honduras. He has been married For 35 years to Diane, and they have a daughter, Nicole and a son, Sean.

John Bell

President
John Bell received his A.A. from Lakewood College in 1988 and a B.S. in Business/Finance with a minor in Criminal Justice from St. Cloud State in 1991. From 1982-1985, John was in the United States Marine Corp. He was one of four people selected for a test team for the M.U.L.E. (Modular Universal Laser Equipment) for the first testing and firing with the Hellfire guided missile system. He was hired in 1991 by Circuit Research Corp serving many different positions within the company until 2002, when as a minority owner and President of CRC, he facilitated the sale of CRC to Seacole and Gregg Elliott. John played a major role when Seacole was awarded the Fast 50 in 2008. John is a member of the FBI Citizens Academy, American Legion, Marine Corps Association, the Chief Financial Officer Network, and an active member of his church. In his free time, he enjoys personal fitness, racquetball, skiing, and traveling. He was Minnesota Youth Soccer Coach of the Year and is a USA Hockey Level 4 Certified Coach. He has been married for 36 years to Rosalie, and they have three children and three grandchildren.

Angell Field

Director of Office Operations
Angell graduated from Missouri College in 1995. After moving to Minnesota in the fall of 1995, she began her career at GMAC Residential Funding, quickly advancing to a managerial position within six months. With over 13 years in the High-End Audio industry as Director of Operations and Customer Support, she has honed her skills in leadership, customer service, and operational excellence. Angell’s notable achievements include successfully designing and leading a seamless office and warehouse move in 2021 for FineSounds America. Implementing Lean manufacturing principles at Audio Research in 2018, reducing production cycle time by 40% in the first year. Demonstrating her project management expertise through the successful Oracle NetSuite ERP Implementation project in 2021. Angell joined Seacole in January 2023, where she continues to drive operational efficiencies and excellence. She is an active member of Cross Lutheran Church and enjoys gardening, refinishing old woodwork pieces, and listening to music as an audiophile. Angell is married and has one daughter.

Romel Virasami

Director of Operations
Romel Virasami has had an impressive educational and professional journey.  After graduating from SLP in 1998, he went on to pursue further post-secondary education, earning credentials from Hennepin Technical and later the University of Minnesota.  Currently, Romel is enrolled in a 2-year leadership program with ACD, demonstrating his ongoing commitment to professional development and growth. Romel’s career path has been marked by steady progression and a strong work ethic, as he started working at an early age and learned invaluable lessons from his parents along the way.  He began his professional journey at Apex International, and then spent 7 years as the operations manager at DMC honing his skills and expertise.  In 2014, Romel join CIC as the operations director, where he played a pivotal role in overseeing the company’s operational growth from $10 Mil to $45 Mil, while managing all operational activities.  Romel’s impressive track record caught the attention of Seacole, and in March 2024, he joined the company as the director of operations, overseeing all operational aspects.  His exceptional performance and leadership abilities were recognized with a promotion to Vice President of Operations in August of 2024.  Throughout his career, Romel has maintained a strong work-life balance, being married for 24 years to his wife, Domatie, and raising two sons, Justin and Hayden.

Jason Dorschner

Industrial Sales Manager

Jason Dorschner earned a B.S. degree in Business Administration from University of Wisconsin-Stout in 2006. From September of 2006 to March of 2023, Jason worked on the sales team for Johnson Brothers Liquor Company. He was a sales consultant for 11 years, responsible for managing a wine and spirits territory in the South Twin Cities metro area worth about $2.3 million dollars. He moved into a District manager role for 4 years where he developed and managed a team of 6 sales consultants in the Twin Cities with responsibilities totaling 150 accounts. He created a work environment that promoted positive culture, team-work, integrity, organization, and effective communication.  Jason’s strong customer relationship ability granted him a chain manager role overseeing the MN market as well as a national accounts manager position where he was responsible for Target and CVS across 14 states. In April 2023, Jason joined Seacole as a Business Development Manager serving the industrial cleaning and custom contract blending markets. Outside of work, Jason enjoys spending time with his wife and 2 kids, being outdoors, practicing health and fitness and helping coach his kids in youth sports.

Tom Vander Heiden

General Manager
for ST Biologicals & Phyton Corporation
Talking farm and soil nutrition to open-minded farmers who want to improve their soil and their profits is what Tom does. It’s also why he joined the team at ST Biologicals, who were building a company with quality products that increase soil and plant health. At ST Biologicals, Tom works with suppliers and producers to increase his knowledge of the principles of soil health. Tom has worked in the ag industry for more than four decades. Growing up in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, on a 60-cow dairy farm with chickens and hogs, he often argued with his father about having to mix the different livestock manures before spreading it on the fields in the spring. Only later did he realize how smart his dad was about fertilization and feeding the microbial population in the soil. Tom majored in dairy with an emphasis on nutrition at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Under the mentorship of Dr. Lee Witwer, he learned the Albrecht method and the importance of quality feeds, their production, and their relationship with the soil. Tom has split his career between dairy nutrition and agronomy. While consulting in the western United States, Tom realized how important soil health was to plant health and crop production. Now, he gives presentations on soil health and regenerative agriculture to groups of farmers across the country. Tom lives in South Central MN with his wife Beth.
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