Meat Institute Officers

Board Of Directors

* denotes Executive Board members

Reed Acrey
The Allan Sullivan Co.

* Jonathan Amidei
Swaggerty’s Sausage Co.

Chafik Barbar
Marble Technologies

* Wesley Batista Filho
JBS Foods USA

Adam Bode
Demkota Ranch Beef

Edwin Botero
Viz Cattle Corp. dba SUKARNE

Patrick Bottini
Jack Links Beef Jerky

* Peter Bozzo
Michael's Finer Meats & Seafoods

Reed Brown
Brown Packing Company, Inc.

Mike Buccheri
HV Randall Foods, LLC

Mike Bumgarner
United Producers

Mike Burica
Workforge

* Doug Bush
Bush Brothers Provisions

Tony Catelli
Catelli Brothers, Inc.

Trevor Caviness
Caviness Beef Packers

Ryan Chapp
EW Grobbel

Brad Clemens
Clemens Food Group

* Brian Coelho
Central Valley Meat Co.

Peggy Cook, Ph.D, CFS
Neogen

Devra Cornell
Bob Evans Farms, Inc.

Sara Crawford
Sustainable Environmental Consultants

* Henry Davis
Greater Omaha Packing Co., Inc.

David Dennis
Pratt Industries

Keaton Dorman
Jack Stack BBQ

Richard Dozier
Independent Meat Co.

Martin Eckmann
Alaska Sausage Company

Matt England
Triumph Foods

Louis Eni
Dietz & Watson, Inc.

* Jeff Ettinger
Hormel Foods Corporation

Greg Evans
Kevin’s Natural Foods

Ole Evenson
Old Trapper

Bill Fielding
Kemin Food Technologies

Joe Forney
AB Foods

Don Fussner
Johnsonville Sausage, LLC

Mike Gau
Performance Foodservice Middendorf

* Jarrod Gillig
Cargill Protein

* Chad Groves
Seaboard Foods

* Eric Gustafson
Coast Packing Company

Oliver Hoad
Environ Energy

James Holland
Winpak

Megan Huddleston
The Kraft Heinz Company

* Randy Huffman
Maple Leaf Foods, Inc.

David Jagodzinske
American Foods Group

Rich Jersey
Rich Jersey LLC

Brad Johnson
Verde Farms LLC

John Keating
Meyer Natural Foods

Anna Kitchens
The Honey Baked Ham Company

* Tim Klein
National Beef Packing Co, LLC

Chris Knight
Safe Foods/Fortrex

Mark Kreul
US Foods

Raven Kropf
Teys USA

Devin Kulla
True Story Foods

Dan LaFleur
Colorado Premium Foods

Joe Lambert
Sealed Air

RuthAnne LaMore
Boar’s Head Provisions Co.

Steven Lau
Yosemite Meat Co.

François Leger
FPL Food, LLC

Karl Lenz
Schenk Packing

* Craig Letch
empirical foods

Art Levitt
Ranchers Processing Inc.

Jesus Lobo
Sigma

Shane MacKenzie
Superior Farms

Gary Malenke
Perdue Premium Meat Co.

Matt Malott
Multivac

* Chad Martin
Tyson Foods

Steven Maxey
Certified Meat Products

Jarrod McCarroll
Weber Inc

* Dave McDonald
OSI Group, LLC

Brian McFarlane
Eurofins Scientific, Inc.

Patrick McGady
Handtmann

Jim Miller
Food Safety Net Services,
A Certified Group Company

Ray Millers
AFCO

Dave Miniat
Miniat Holdings

Matt Monkiewicz
Kayem Foods

Mark Moshier
Arrowsight, Inc.

Kevin Nanke
Lopez-Dorada Foods

Candice Niu
CLB Management Inc

* Tanya Nueske
Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Bacon

Abel Olivera
Jensen Meat Company

* Brent Patmos
Fresh Mark, Inc.

Olga Pawluczyk
P & P Optica Inc.

David Premo
Birko, A Diversey Company

Emile Randazzo
Nebraska Beef

Nate Rempe
Omaha Steaks International

Scott Rich
Wasatch Meats

John Richardson
Sugar Creek Packing

Ryan Robinson
Jones Dairy Farm

James Rudolph
Rudolph Foods Company, Inc.

Jamie Schweid
Schweid & Sons

Greg Schweitzer
Conagra Foods

John Senseman
IMA Financial Group

Eric Sheiss
Packers Corporation

Ross Shuket
Old World Provisions

* Shane Smith
Smithfield Foods

Nicole Sorensen
Hill Meat Company

Fred Stephan
Amcor

John Stika
Certified Angus Beef

Justin Still
Surlean Foods

Mike L. Thompson
Fair Oaks Foods

Norlyn Tipton
Sysco Corporation

Steve Todd
Reiser

* David Van Eekeren
Land O’Frost, Inc.

* Dennis Vignieri
Kenosha Beef International, Ltd.

Jamie Wally
WOW Logistics

Theo Weening
The Sustainable Meats Group

Kurt Westmoreland
Flexxray

Chris Williams
Pineland Farms Natural Meats