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Meet Our Poultry Team

Building the best nutrition and solutions for your business.

As members of the Cargill Animal Nutrition team we share a passion for nutrition solutions. Just like our customers, we want to achieve the best results: from the research barns to the farms and everything in between. Our purpose is to bring distinctive value and trust to our customers through innovative solutions and capabilities to ensure their success.

Poultry/Leadership

Robbie Moody,
Commercial Director, Poultry

  • 20+ years in the animal nutrition

  • B.S. Animal Science, Clemson University

  • M.S. Nutrition, Clemson University

  • MBA, Strayer University

Robbie is responsible for leading the integrated poultry and additive teams across the U.S. and Canada. His expertise helps him develop his teams skills and by working together they aim to meet customer needs and support their success. In addition to this, his work with various teams has helped refine our value proposition across both our premix and feed segments in broilers, turkeys, and layers.

Maury Ore,
Sales Manager, Poultry

  • 40+ years in the animal nutrition

  • B.S. Poultry Science, Virginia Tech

Maury specializes in sales coaching, talent development, and team building. He also focuses on strategic planning and developing the customer experience by providing support to account managers and their customers.

Rob Payne,
Nutrition & Technical Services Director, Poultry

  • 20+ years in the animal nutrition

  • B.S. Animal Sciences, Middle Tennessee State University

  • M.S. Non-Ruminant Nutrition, Louisiana State University

  • Ph.D. Non-Ruminant Nutrition, Louisiana State University

Rob is responsible for developing and executing Cargill Animal Nutrition - North America’s poultry nutrition strategy using a team of nutritionists and formulators to deliver industry-leading applied nutrition solutions to our customers. He also utilizes his expertise to troubleshoot nutrition and management issues to optimize nutritional value and financial return.

Blake Van Denburgh,
Sales Manager, Poultry

  • 20+ years in the animal nutrition

  • B.S. Animal Science, University of Minnesota

  • Specialty Certification in Poultry Science, University of Wisconsin Madison

Blake empowers and engages the poultry sales team to isolate customer challenges and leverage the teams experience, education and Cargill’s reach to create partnerships with our customers to solve the challenges. His team accomplishes these goals by utilizing best in industry nutritional practices, the skill sets of experienced team members and Cargill’s expansive portfolio of products.

Poultry/Nutritionists & Technical Services

Ilana Barasch,
Poultry Nutritionist

  • 7+ years in poultry industry

  • B.S. Animal Science, University of Missouri

  • M.S. Poultry Science, North Carolina State University

  • Ph.D. Nutrition and Poultry Science, North Carolina State University

Ilana develops customer specific feeding programs, and troubleshoots nutrition and management issues to optimize nutritional value and financial return.

Sheilena Durbin,
Poultry Technical Services Specialist

  • 8+ years as a poultry veterinarian

  • B.S.A. Avian Biology, The University of Georgia

  • D.V.M., The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine

Sheilena works closely with other members of the Diamond V Layer Team and provides veterinary technical support to poultry companies throughout the United States. 

Chris Eagleson,
Poultry Nutritionist

  • 10+ years in poultry industry

  • B.S. Poultry Science, University of Arkansas

  • M.S. Poultry Science, University of Arkansas

  • Ph.D. Poultry Nutrition, Texas A&M University

Chris develops customer specific feeding programs, and troubleshoots nutrition and management issues to optimize nutritional value and financial return.

Elisangela Guaiume (Angela),
Poultry Nutritionist

  • 14+ years in poultry industry

  • B.S. Animal Sciences, Universidade Estadual Paulista- Botucatu- Brazil

  • M.S. Poultry Nutrition, University of Missouri-Columbia

  • Ph.D. Poultry Nutrition, University of Missouri-Columbia

Elisangela works with customers to develop optimal feeding strategies to helps them achieve their goals and maintain profitability.

Stephanie Hutsko,
Poultry Nutritionist

  • 5+ years in poultry industry

  • B.S. Animal Science, Michigan State University

  • M.S. Animal Nutrition, The Ohio State University

  • Ph.D. Animal Nutrition, The Ohio State University

Stephanie's focus is layer production and turkeys, all within the organic and NAE/ABF space. She excels at optimizing nutrition and bringing in added value feed additives to give our customers the best producing birds, even with their limitations due to the restrictions in the organic and NAE programs.

Dina Joardar,
Poultry Nutritionist

  • 25+ years in poultry industry

  • B.V.S.c. University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India

  • M.S.c. Poultry Science, Scottish Agricultural College, University of Glasgow

  • Ph.D. Poultry Science & Animal Nutrition, North Carolina State University

Dina develops customer specific feeding programs, and troubleshoots nutrition and management issues to optimize nutritional value and financial return.

Jarred Oxford,
Poultry Nutritionist

  • 3+ years in poultry industry

  • B.S. Poultry Science, University of Georgia

  • M.S. Poultry Nutrition, University of Georgia

  • Ph.D. Nutritional Immunology, University of Georgia

Jarred develops customer specific feeding programs, and troubleshoots nutrition and management issues to optimize nutritional value and financial return.

Mark Famer,
Poultry Technical Manager

  • 40+ years in the poultry industry

  • B.S. Animal Science, Auburn University

  • M.S. Poultry Nutrition, Auburn University

  • Ph.D. Interdepartmental Biochemistry & Nutrition, Auburn University

Mark provides industry expertise and uses his many years of experience in the industry to provide customers with the best solutions for their birds. 

Erin Gingerich,
Poultry Technical Specialist

  • 45+ years in the poultry industry

  • B.S. Animal Sciences, Purdue University

  • DVM, Purdue University

Erin works to inform poultry customers and prospects on the benefits of feeding our products. Her focus is primarily egg producers, and she assists customers with layer health management and food safety. 

Poultry/Research-Formulation Specialists

Rachel Abner,
Poultry Formulation Specialist

  • 15+ years in poultry industry

  • B.S. Animal Science, The Ohio State University

Rachel works on developing customer specific feeding programs and analyzing ingredient nutrient value to optimize customer performance and financial return.

Kennedi Martens,
Poultry Formulation Specialist

  • 6+ years in poultry industry

  • B.S. Animal Nutrition, Stephen F. Austin State University

  • M.S. Poultry Nutrition, Stephen F. Austin State University

Kennedi specializes in formulating customer specific feeding programs, while working alongside nutritionists to troubleshoot and provide formulation support.

Maci Oelschlager,
Technology Application Lead

  • 7 years in animal nutrition industry

  • A.S. General Science, Parkland College

  • B.S. Animal Science, University of Illinois

  • M.S. Animal Science, University of Illinois

  • Ph.D. Animal Science, University of Illinois

Maci specializes in many areas including troubleshooting health, nutrition, and management issues to optimize nutritional value and financial return, coordinating and managing research trials, and providing input on the design and supporting trial application of nutrition and health research projects for monogastric species. 

Briana Peters,
Poultry Formulation Specialist

  • 9+ years in poultry industry

  • B.S. Animal Science, Wilmington College

Brianna supports all the poultry nutritionists on our team, working directly with them and their customers on least cost formulation needs.

Poultry/Account Managers

Tammy Baltzley,
Poultry Account Manager

  • 22+ years in poultry industry

  • B.S. Veterinary Technology, Microbiology, North Dakota State University

  • M.S. Poultry Science, Texas A&M University

Tammy has expertise in layer production, including cage free, organic, and pasture production. She helps address and troubleshoot customer challenges, needs and questions.

Steven Britton,
Poultry Account Manager

  • 25+ years in poultry industry

  • B.S. History, Piedmont University

  • M.S. Business Management, Texas A&M University

Steven excels in developing customer specific feeding programs and troubleshooting nutrition and management issues. He also specializing in bird health and vaccination programs to assist customers to optimize nutritional value, bird health, production, and financial return.

Mike Burns,
Poultry Account Manager

  • 20+ years in poultry industry

  • B.S. Poultry Technology & Management, Penn State University

Mike is very familiar with all aspects of poultry production, with skills in reviewing metrics important to the poultry business and identifying what drives decisions for leaders in the poultry industry. He also has experience in strategic sales planning and supports his team and their customers well.

John Dowell,
Poultry Account Manager

  • 23+ years in animal nutrition industry

  • B.S. Animal Science, Texas A&M University

John's primary interest is helping our customers succeed. He is an expert in providing solutions to the challenges that our customers are facing.

Sandy James Lee,
Poultry Account Manager

  • 25+ years in animal nutrition industry

  • B.S. Agriculture Education, Oklahoma State University

Sandy is skilled at fitting the technologies and expertise Cargill that has to offer to meet the customer needs and to assist them in achieving their goals.

Rodrigo Lopez,
Poultry Account Manager

  • 7+ years in poultry industry

  • B.S. Livestock Business Management, Fresno State University

  • M.S. Poultry Science, Fresno State University

Rodrigo specializes not only in nutritional health products but also in on-farm troubleshooting, nutritional consulting and training, and connecting customers to technical support teams. He uses his skills in these areas to support his customers, and the overall success of all stakeholders.

Jason McCamy,
Poultry Account Manager

  • 25+ years in poultry industry

  • B.S. Agriculture Business and Economics, Auburn University

Jason focuses on building retaining customer relationships, through solution selling, strategic account planning, and providing excellent service. He has experience with poultry biologicals, medicated feed additives, and postbiotic feed additives

Judson Powell,
Poultry Account Manager

  • 4+ years in poultry industry

  • B.S. Poultry Science, Auburn University

Judson specializes in nutritional health products, on-farm troubleshooting, and nutritional consulting and training. His main focus is providing customer support and solutions to any issues they face.

Kevin Riley,
Poultry Account Manager

  • 28+ years in poultry industry

  • B.S. Animal Science, Berry College

Kevin spends his time working with our customers and prospects to optimize their financial return.

Mark Tilbury,
Poultry Account Manager

  • 40+ years in poultry industry

  • B.S. Poultry Science, Michigan State University

Mark is an expert in poultry production. He spends his time supporting customers and helping them achive their goals.

Mike Warsco,
Poultry Account Manager

  • MI, parts of N IN and SW ON

  • 40+ years in animal nutrition industry

  • B.S., Michigan State University

Mike is skilled at fitting the technologies and expertise Cargill that has to offer to meet the customer needs and to assist them in achieving their goals.

 

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Cargill has more than 120 years of experience in animal nutrition solutions. We come to work every day to research, innovate and create solutions that enable you and your customers to succeed.