Chad Pilcher

Swine Nutritionist

About Chad

Chad works with our Swine Team to develop customer specific feeding programs to optimize nutritional value and financial return. He also invests time with customers in troubleshooting nutrition and management issues. Chad is passionate about advancing our understanding of ingredients and works closely with the Global Team on Cargill Nutrition System enhancements.

Chad enjoys spending time with his wife, Amy, and daughters, Abby and Emily. Chad loves grilling (especially pork!) and is an avid fan of University of Illinois sports teams and Chicago Cubs baseball.

Member of Team Provimi since: October 28, 2013

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Chris Parks

Swine Nutritionist

About Chris

Chris works within an account team structure (key account manager, nutritionist, nutrition analyst, and production specialist) to identify customer needs and develop solutions.  He also works directly with customers on nutrition consulting (diet strategy, nutrient analysis, ingredient supplier selection, and economic modeling).

When Chris is not working, he enjoys spending time with family, fishing, and watching the kids play lacrosse and ride horses.

Member of Team Provimi since: January 25, 2021

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Erin Holmes

Swine Nutritionist

About Erin

As a Swine Nutritionist, Erin works with pork producers to understand their production systems and capabilities and identify areas that will help producers advance and excel in producing safe, nutritious, and affordable lean pork for human consumption around the world. As part of the Technical Team, she supports development of new technologies and offerings based on needs of pork producers. With such a dynamic industry and the continued advances in understanding ingredients, pig requirements, and pork production, Erin sees many opportunities in food production. She enjoys all facets of pork production and applies a whole-system approach to refining management practices to help producers implement new technologies that are practical and cost-effective.

Erin enjoys new adventures by traveling near and far with, and to visit, family and friends. She is involved in her church and is an avid baker. Erin enjoys watching and playing sports and the challenge of running half marathons and triathlons.

Member of Team Provimi since: January 5, 2015

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James C. Peters

Swine Nutritionist

About James C.

J.C. is part of the Swine Technical Services Nutritionists Group. Since joining Provimi, he has increased his work with Account Teams in supporting several customers across the country. He not only provides nutritional recommendations, JC visits customer’s farms to walk-through and make specific recommendations on management practices.

J.C. enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, Madison, Garrett, and Elliott. His children are active year round in dance, football, and basketball. Supporting their activities keeps him very busy. J.C. also loves watching Buckeye football and basketball, and in his spare time enjoys working outside in the yard and garden.

Member of Team Provimi since: June 2, 2015

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Kathryn Price

Swine Nutritionist and Technical Services

About Kathryn

Kathryn is a trusted expert on the Swine Nutrition and Technical Team. She appreciates working with many accounts across the globe. In addition to her responsibilities with the Swine Technical Team, she manages Provimi US Swine Products. Kathryn enjoys leading successful product launches and applications that provide individualized benefits for swine customers. To ensure innovative product strategy, she works cross-functionally with purchasing, formulation, pricing, and manufacturing.

Kathryn and her husband are new parents and are excitedly navigating their way through the parenthood journey. She enjoys spending time with her husband and animals. In her spare time, Kathryn also enjoys volunteering in the Dayton area as a Pet Therapy team with her Golden Retriever, Belle.

Member of Team Provimi since: January 3, 2012

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Ken Mooney

Swine Nutritionist

About Ken

Ken ensures today’s top pork producers are staying competitive. His passion for nutrition makes sure leading technology is implemented in the diets he designs for his customers. Problem solving with his team of fellow nutritionists allows for quick results when any on-farm issues arise. Utilizing the information generated by the Provimi Research Team allows him to offer nutritional solutions that make a positive difference to his customers. Ken also finds great enjoyment in mentoring nutritional assistants and sales force about swine nutrition and how their role is critical to the success of our customers.

Ken enjoys spending time with his wife and four children. He actively coaches his children’s soccer teams throughout the year. When not coaching soccer, he is watching his favorite English Premier League team, Chelsea, play on TV. To wind down, Ken enjoys landscaping his yard and volunteering his time to help out at his wife and kid’s school.

Member of Team Provimi since: March 1, 1999

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Qingyun Li

Swine Nutritionist

About Qingyun

Qingyun Li focuses on nutrition consulting, economic modeling, and nutritional technology support to optimize profitability for our customers. She also collaborates with our strategic marketing and technology team on research and innovation projects to better serve our customers.

Qingyun is originally from China and currently lives in Tipp City, Ohio, with her husband Zhikai. Her hobbies include going to the gym for fitness classes and traveling to relax herself as well as embrace different people, landscapes, and cultures.

Member of Team Provimi since: December 31, 2018

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Doug Anderson

Nutrition Analyst

About Doug

Doug works directly with customers and Provimi Nutritionists and Account Managers to provide nutrition solutions. He provides diet formulation, ingredient and cost comparisons, and provide various reports.

Doug is married with 2 young adult children. He and his wife live on a small farm where they have raised show pigs. In his spare time, Doug enjoys deer hunting on their farm.

Member of Team Provimi since: August 5, 2013

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Kristin Olsen

Nutrition Analyst

About Kristin

Kristin works along with the nutritionists and accounts managers to support customer diet formulation, ingredient pricing, and working to meet each customer’s expectations. Diet formulation and ingredient pricing includes evaluating various ingredient savings, cost-optimized diets, and using lab information to update ingredient values. 

Kristin lives in Pella, Iowa, with her husband, Nick, and son, Hans. She enjoys singing and playing guitar and piano in her free time, and loves being outdoors to hike, camp, and bike.

Member of Team Provimi since: April 13, 2020

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Leigh Ruckman

Nutrition Analyst

About Leigh

Leigh works along with the nutritionists and accounts managers to support customer diet formulation, ingredient pricing, and working to meet each customer’s expectations. Diet formulation and ingredient pricing includes evaluating various ingredient savings, cost-optimized diets, and using lab information to update ingredient values. 

In her free time, Leigh loves to grill for family and friends, and enjoys the outdoors, hiking and kayaking with her rescue dog.

Member of Team Provimi since: September 28, 2020

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Tammi Staebler

Nutrition Analyst

About Tammi

Tammi works along with the nutritionists and accounts managers to support customer diet formulation, ingredient pricing, and working to meet each customer’s expectations. Diet formulation and ingredient pricing includes evaluating various ingredient savings, cost-optimized diets, and using lab information to update ingredient values. 

Member of Team Provimi since: December 4, 1995

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Tricia Smith

Nutrition Analyst

About Tricia

Tricia works along with the nutritionists and accounts managers to support customer diet formulation, ingredient pricing, and working to meet each customer’s expectations. Diet formulation and ingredient pricing includes evaluating various ingredient savings, cost-optimized diets, and using lab information to update ingredient values. 

Tricia lives in Vandalia, Ohio with her two cats Lucy and Ethel. Tricia enjoys going to concerts and getting outside to hike, bike, and do the occasional kayaking trip. She also enjoys spending time to volunteer and help others.

Member of Team Provimi since: August 25, 2014

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Allan Xue

Research Nutritionist

About Allan

Allan manages research of grow-finishing pigs on Provimi Research Farms, including trial design and management, data collection and analysis, as well as summarizing study reports. He collaborates with a variety of groups in the company to perceive market trend, optimize research topic priority, and present trial results. As a member of the research team, Allan also works with other teams in the company on Research and Development projects for products and services.

Allan comes from Beijing, China and currently lives in the Dayton, Ohio area, with his wife Anne and son Conan. Allan is a big NBA fan and his hobbies also include traveling, swimming, and reading detective novels.

Member of Team Provimi since: January 3, 2017

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Caroline Gonzalez Vega

Innovation Lead - Pork

About Caroline

Caroline joins the Research and Innovation team where she will focus on various innovation projects, and support research efforts.

In her spare time, Caroline enjoys traveling, exploring new places, and meeting people.

Member of Team Provimi since: November 15, 2021

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Don Giesting

Micro Nutrition Innovation Lead

About Don

Don leads our MicroNutrition innovation approach and execution, aligning with species business strategies and priorities; Align with Category Leads and other SMT resources to shape and drive future MicroNutrition offerings for our customers. Working with; broader Cargill and select external thought leaders to find innovative ideas, he will help to generate novel and differentiated solutions to help solve target customers’ biggest problems, and engage with strategic customers and partners to optimize application of MicroNutrition solutions.

In his spare time, Don enjoys hiking, Nordic skiing, and other outdoor activities, along with cooking, eating, watching soccer, and supporting his and his wife's children’s development to adulthood.

Member of Team Provimi since: January 8, 1990

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Molly McGhee

Technology Application Lead

About Molly

In her role, Molly manages research and develops excellent criteria as protocols, coordination, timeline respect in trial deliverables and line of site to innovation unit and data. She contributes to the delivery of innovation research and projects through supporting researchers with trial execution, protocols and data. Molly is also accountable for a core area within enabling science or trial application and supporting the innovations centers, in systems and in markets.

Molly is originally from a western suburb of Chicago. She loves animals, and a major part of her childhood was spent riding and showing horses, and being active in 4-H. 

Member of Team Provimi since: June 14, 2021

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Sabrina Williams

Research and Development Manager

About Sabrina

As a Swine Research Manager, Sabrina is responsible for coordinating and leading the swine research trials conducted at the North America Technology Application Center. In her role, she prioritizes topics, manages trial objectives, determines the best experimental designs, interprets data, and communicates results to the technical team, industry colleagues, and customers. Sabrina is also engaged with the Additives Team in the development of new additives. As a Product Development Manager, Sabrina works in conjunction with the Swine Product Manager to update Provimi U.S. swine products based on recent research findings to ensure that we are offering the best nutritional solutions to our customers. In addition, Sabrina also works closely with the global team to exchange research information, processes, and how to better align research priorities that can be advantageous to our business on a global level.

Sabrina enjoys spending time with her two children, Lexie and Ryan. Attending her children’s activities including soccer, showing dogs in 4-H, and Girl Scouts keep her busy. Born and raised in Brazil, Sabrina is a huge soccer fan. Other interests include outside activities with her children and traveling to learn about new cultures.

Member of Team Provimi since: June 30, 2003

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Sara Ebarb

Research Associate

About Sara

Sara facilitates the trials conducted at our research facilities. Before and throughout the trials, she updates farm protocols, maintains the feed deliveries, and provides the plant with manufacturing instructions and lab analysis requests. Once trials are complete, she inputs and verifies the performance data, perform statistical analysis, and summarizes the data into tables and Power Point presentations. Sara also works with the nutritionists to discuss future project focus, new supplier data, and deliver customer facing presentations, such as the Provimi Research Review. She continually strives to deliver additional research information to the technical team to assist with our customers’ inquiries.

Sara enjoys taking her beagle to the dog park or hiking trails when the weather is nice. In the fall, she stays busy watching her favorite teams, the Oakland Raiders and Kansas State Wildcats, play football. Any given opportunity, she enjoys traveling to new places with family and friends.

Member of Team Provimi since: March 16, 2016

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Andy Rash

Sales Leader

About Andy

Andy's role is best defined as being an accountable support system for our powerhouse team and the customers they serve.

In his spare time, Andy enjoys spending time with his family. His kids are active members in 4H, exhibiting livestock across state and nationally. They also are involved in many youth sporting events throughout the year. 

Member of Team Provimi since: July 1, 2019

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Brendan Corrigan

Account Manager

About Brendan

Brendan calls on pork producers primarily in Eastern IA, Southwest WI and throughout Illinois to create awareness of Provimi pork team and its services/technologies and build our business in these areas. He also supports other pork account teams by providing live demonstrations of Cargill Nutrition Systems to customers/prospects to discuss and understand the value these offerings have.

Brendan enjoys spending time with his wife, Gina and their three boys Jackson, Dalton, and Preston. He helps coaching their t-ball and soccer teams, taking them fishing and in return they help him with inside/outside projects and taking care of their five goats and two peafowl.He also likes pheasant hunting with 1.5 year old German Shorthair named Pearl as well as duck, goose and deer hunting in between pheasant hunting.

Member of Team Provimi since: May 9, 2016

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Bruce Ervin

Sales Leader

About Bruce

Bruce acts as a resource for our people to help clear the path and allow them to maximize their efforts to provide solutions focused on the success of our customers. He enjoys being involved each day with our team to provide support and guidance with the goal of making a positive impact for our people and ultimately with our customers' business.

Bruce is passionate about spending time with his family & friends, personal time & relaxation, Buckeye football, hunting (sporting clays too) and fishing. He also enjoys being outside, working in the yard and playing golf.

Member of Team Provimi since: August 31, 2018

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Chad Steinkamp

Account Manager

About Chad

As part of the North American Pork team, Chad helps to service much of the pork-dense geography near his home base of central Iowa by providing customers with the nutrition, technical and product support they need to keep their organizations profitable. 

Chad enjoys spending time with his family and being outdoors. Having three kids all active in sports, keeps Chad and his wife Sara busy. His hobbies include bow hunting, spending time with his kids in the outdoors, farming, and watching college football. 

Member of Team Provimi since: October 12, 2020

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Gavin Meyer

Account Manager Associate

About Gavin

Gavin is a newer addition to the pork team and pork industry, and just starting to work with a few of his own customers and prospects in Iowa and the surrounding states. In addition to his account manager responsibilities, Gavin spends a good deal of time recruiting the next generation of Provimi talent. He is also working to become the team’s go-to resource for helping internal and external teams use the Cargill Nutrition Cloud’s Producer Profitability tool, as our customers’ profitability is always a relevant conversation.

In his spare time, Gavin loves spending time and traveling with his fiancé, Olivia. When he’s home, you’ll usually find him out in the barn working with his family’s show goat operation or staying active via some sort of sporting event, whether it be softball, golf, or basketball.

Member of Team Provimi since: June 1, 2020

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Jan McTaggart

Account Manager

About Jan

Jan is an Account Manager in Indiana and Illinois, as well as some accounts in Ohio. Her market area is mostly swine, but does also have dairy and poultry. She has a passion for serving customers to help them be successful.

Territories: IL, Northern IN, Northeast MO

Jan enjoys spending her time at home with husband, Bob in their yard, garden and orchard. She also enjoys seeing her two grown sons, Stephen and Erik, when she can. Jan continues to be a big Boilermaker fan, living close to the University, they enjoy going to Purdue activities and sports events.

Member of Team Provimi since: September 6, 2004

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Katie Betts

Account Manager

About Katie

Katie is responsible for working with swine and poultry customers throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. Katie leads account teams to help provide nutrition and technical service support to our customers. She has a passion to help our customers succeed and goes above and beyond to help them achieve their goals.

Katie is an avid Buckeye fan and enjoys spending time with friends and family, cooking, and traveling.

Member of Team Provimi since: June 4, 2012

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Kent Lytle

Account Manager

About Kent

Kent is responsible for working with Swine accounts in the Southeastern U.S.

Kent enjoys spending time with his wife, Tricia and their two children, Hannah and Brooks. Hannah is a softball player and Brooks plays baseball and basketball. Kent helps coach their teams. Kent’s family is active in Wendell Baptist Church. The Lytle’s are big Wolfpack fans and try to take in as many Wolfpack sporting events as they can.

Member of Team Provimi since: April 2, 1990

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Kevin Hermesch

Account Manager

About Kevin

Kevin is responsible for Account Team leadership with current and future Provimi nutritional customers located in Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas. He strives to identify customer needs and develop solutions that will increase the profitability of their business. His passion is developing tools to evaluate customer production information and provide data analysis to increase their bottom line. The use of these tools helps make Kevin more effective and gives him a better understanding of the customer’s business. Kevin uses the full Provimi Nutritional Service Team to provide better solutions for a multitude of customer needs and opportunities.

Kevin enjoys quality time with his wife, Cathy and three children, Breanna, Trevor and Kylie. Kevin and Cathy are seen walking in their neighborhood on a regular basis. Kevin is a competitive racquetball player, and enjoys family time riding bikes, snow skiing, and hiking Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.

Member of Team Provimi since: July 19, 1993

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Kyle Riggs

Account Manager

About Kyle

Kyle is responsible for helping customers succeed in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. He serves as the primary advisor for swine producers and Regional Feed Mills helping deliver economical and trustworthy insights utilizing the Provimi tools. Kyle works with the customers individually to understand their needs before working with the Provimi Account Team to create a customized solution for their business. Whether it’s collaborating on strategic business plans or just grabbing lunch together, Kyle values his personal and professional relationships with customers.

Kyle and his wife have a son and enjoy spending time with him as well as the rest of their family. They also participate in the family show pig operation and enjoy raising and selling pigs, as well as attending local, state, and national shows with their friends.

Member of Team Provimi since: March 1, 2007

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Mary Heiller

Account Manager

About Mary

As a pork account manager, Mary works with both pork producers and feed mill customers located in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Illinois. Her role is to manage account teams in order to best serve our customers with expertise in many different areas. Our team’s goal is to increase our customer’s profitability through nutrition, technology, and further services.

Outside of work, Mary enjoys attending Iowa State sporting events, golfing and baking. She is also involved in the Iowa 4-H Foundation and enjoys supporting youth projects.

Member of Team Provimi since: May 1, 2018

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Matt Wolfe

Account Manager

About Matt

Matt is a guiding influence for customers across the Midwest and spends the majority of his time in Southern Minnesota. His main responsibility is to utilize the vast resources and expertise of Provimi to add value to his customers’ business. Matt is passionate about working for, and with his customers to help them build the best pork system possible.

Matt enjoys spending time with his wife and two children. Time seems to fill up quickly with family events, taking care of their acreage, and attending or coaching FFA activities.

Member of Team Provimi since: December 1, 2006

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Mike Clark

Account Manager

About Mike

Mike is responsible for customer accounts in Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, and Iowa. Most of his time is focused in the swine industry, though he also serves some poultry and dairy business. Mike strives to keep his customers up to date on the latest Provimi research, product changes, and industry happenings. He works with the entire Provimi team to provide support to customers through the Manufacturing, Customer Service, and Technical Teams. Mike has had the privilege of working with many talented Swine Nutritionists in the industry. As a member of the Provimi team, Mike is dedicated to providing nutritional solutions to help customers succeed.

Territories: NE, KS, Western IA, WY, CO

Mike and his wife, Brenda, live in Lincoln, NE. Mike appreciates spending time with their three adult children and spouses, and most importantly with the five grandchildren he feels blessed to have in the family. For fun, Mike likes to fish, watch Big Red football, and go hunting with his lab, Leia.

Member of Team Provimi since: November 1, 2006

Mike Warsco

Account Manager

About Mike

Mike covers Michigan, Northern Indiana and Southwest Ontario, working with all species. Mike is proud of the fact that Provimi has been doing business in this market area for over 40 years and has customers that have been working with our company almost as long. Besides buying customers lunches and donuts, Mike works as a conduit between customers and our nutrition staff, as well as all other departments at Provimi.

Territories: MI

Mike cuts wood, makes things from wood, burns wood and smokes meat with wood. Mike’s wife tells him he has too many chain saws and smokers. He plays harmonica on weekends at jam sessions and gigs with musical friends. Mike is learning the banjo, but reports not being patient with it. He attends MSU sporting events and goes fishing whenever he is able.

Member of Team Provimi since: March 6, 1995

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Patrick Pokorney

Account Manager

About Patrick

Patrick’s role as Account Manager is to get to know and understand producers and production companies in the upper Midwest and help optimize, implement, and identify solutions into their business. In Patrick’s opinion, one of the best aspects of the job is that he rarely finds two situations that are ever completely alike. As an Account Manager, regardless of serving a Swine or Poultry customers, Mike believes he serves as the liaison between a strong company that’s dedicated to our customers and the industry and the producers who are striving to become more effective and more efficient in how they utilize their nutrition and production resources.

Territories: MN

Patrick’s key outside interests are spending time in God’s great outdoor playground watching a day come alive, be it hunting whitetails, elk, anything that may be in season, or by dropping a line in the water. He enjoys spending time with his wife, Nicole and their three sons, chasing around to various activities, and watching them grow up to be who they want to be.

Member of Team Provimi since: April 10, 1995

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Andrea Vinci

Director – Pork Business Analysis & Support

About Andrea

Andrea leads the commercialization of our emerging technology offering, focused on improving our customers’ profitability. She also supervises our live production support team.

Andrea is married with 3 daughters, 2 stepsons and their dog Gary. She enjoys spending free time with her family on the lake in the summer, and at regular family dinners during the winter. They also stay busy with kid’s activities. Andrea has a passion for livestock and volunteering. The Vinci’s have a small family farm and she is personally a member of several non-profit boards.

Member of Team Provimi since: April 13, 2020

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Brian Hawkins

Manufacturing Services & Support Manager

About Brian

In his role, Brian assists Provimi customers with technical support in virtually any area as it pertains to feed manufacturing. Specific areas include: Quality Assurance, Maintenance, Safety, Increased through-put, FSMA Compliance, Mill Retrofits and New Mill Construction. Having grown up on a farm and recently owned/operated a 4,400 head W-F site, he understands the challenges faced by our producers. He's had the opportunity to construct 3 new state of the art integrated feed mills over the past 22 years, feeding both swine and large tom turkeys.

In his spare time, Brian enjoys spending time with family, traveling, motorcycles, automobile restoration, and is a member of the Masonic Lodge.

Member of Team Provimi since: January 23, 2017

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Erin Ehinger

Production Support Specialist

About Erin

Erin is a Production Support Specialist and focuses primarily on supporting our swine nutrition customers in Michigan, Indiana, and Southwest Ohio. 

Erin lives with her husband and three daughters in Zeeland, Michigan.

Member of Team Provimi since: February 27, 2017

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Joe George

Wean to Finish Specialist

About Joe

Joe is responsible for working with our customers from weaning to the finishing stage in production. Barn and room ventilation is a high priority for him, as without the proper environment swine production will always be compromised. Joe utilizes the newest technology in evaluating environments where our customers’ animals are raised. Teaching producers about the responsible use of the environment where their livestock live is an area Joe truly enjoys. He stresses the fact that having all the production and environmental components working in unison is a vital part of success for every customer’s pork production.

Joe enjoys spending time with his wife, Jolene and two children, Will and Katie. The family passion is Rodeo with both kids involved in the sport. In his spare time, you’ll find Joe outside: fishing, hunting, and trapping.

Member of Team Provimi since: September 2, 1998

Ken Lamm

Environmental Specialist

About Ken

Ken is known as the “Ventilation Guy”. His primary responsibility is support for the Nutritional Team by auditing and optimizing the environment in customers’ facilities. He travels the country and even travels internationally speaking to swine and poultry producers and integrators on the subject of ventilation management. He has also been instrumental in developing our Benchmark Auditing Program for analyzing the barn environment.

Ken enjoys spending time with his 21 grandkids: attending baseball games, soccer matches, wrestling matches, dance recitals, football and volleyball games. He also enjoys gardening, woodworking and fishing. On nice days, Ken gets on his Goldwing motorcycle and rides Ohio’s back roads.

Member of Team Provimi since: June 1, 1998

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Roy Miller

Manufacturing Services & Support Manager

About Roy

Roy works directly with our Account Managers and Nutritionist to assist our customers with their feed milling activities. Such activities include feed quality, feed & food safety, employee safety, milling efficiencies, new mill build/retrofits, and more. 

In his spare time, Roy enjoys spending time with his family; watching his daughter play volleyball, and competing with his 2 sons at various rodeos and team roping events across the country.

Member of Team Provimi since: May 10, 1990