Todd is the Assistant Staff Executive, Security and Integrity Foundation. He is a fourth generation Kansan with strong ties to agriculture and business. Over the decades, Todd’s family has become involved with the energy industry on various levels. For the last thirty years, it has become common to see oil and natural gas pumps in the middle of rolling wheat fields, including his family’s farm.

Todd finished his undergraduate work at Kansas State University in Biological Science and Secondary Education. He then taught high school Biological, Chemical, and Physical Science for one year in Manhattan, Kansas and two years in Atchison, Kansas. He also served as an adjunct Physics professor for Benedictine College. Todd decided to go to graduate school as a Political Science student at Kansas State University. While in graduate school, Todd was able to work for Representative Jim Ryun (R-KS) in Washington D.C., Governor Bill Graves in Kansas, and the Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh.

He joined APGA in 2005.