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Board of Directors

*Executive Committee Members

James Anderson
Marlen Research Corporation

*Van Ayvazian
Boar's Head Provision Co., Inc.

William Barnette, III
Greenwood Packing

*Greg Benedict
Rosen Meat Group, Inc.

Dane Bernard
Keystone Foods, L.L.C.

Edward Bleka
Quantum Foods, Inc.

Anthony Bayat
CFS North America, Inc.

*Richard Bond
Tyson Foods, Inc.
(Treasurer)

*J. Patrick Boyle
American Meat Institute
(President & CEO)

William Brennan
Iowa Lamb Corporation
*Rod Brenneman
Seaboard Farms, Inc.

Reed Brown
Brown Packing Company

*William Buckner
Cargill, Inc./Excel Corporation
(Chairman)

John Butts
Land O'Frost, Inc.

Anthony Catelli
Catelli Brothers, Inc.

*Philip Clemens
Hatfield Quality Meats

Ivo Cozzini
Cozzini, Inc.

Douglas Curtis
Curtis Packing Company

*Henry Davis
Greater Omaha Packing Co., Inc.

Tom Davis
President and CEO
Specialty Foods Group, Inc.

*Tim Day
Bar-S Foods Co.

*Michel Defenbau
Multivac, Inc.
Louis Eni
Dietz & Watson, Inc.
William Fielding
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, LLC
Thomas Fillippo
Devault Foods
A. J. Follenweider
Swissland Packing Company
Jeff Freirich
Julian Freirich Co.

*Neil Genshaft
Fresh Mark, Inc.

*John Griffin
Griffin Industries, Inc.
*Joel Johnson
Hormel Foods Corporation

Philip Jones
Jones Dairy Farm

Gustave Juengling, III
Prestige Meat & Foods, Inc.
Robert Kessler, Jr.
Kessler's, Inc.

*Rich Armstrong
Sara Lee Food and Beverage   

*Carl Kuehne
American Foods Group

Christian Kunzler, III
Kunzler and Company
Thomas Leidy
Leidy's, Inc.
Neal Leonard
L & H Holding

*Joseph Luter, III,
Smithfield Foods, Inc.

*Robert 'Bo' Manly
Premium Standard Farms, Inc. 
(Vice Chairman)

Christopher Mason
AEW THURNE Inc.
David McDonald
OSI Industries, Inc.
  Ira Mendelson
Murry's, Inc.
*John Miller
National Beef Packing Company

*David Miniat
Ed Miniat, Inc. 
(Secretary)

Thomas Neese, Jr.
Neese Country Sausage, Inc.

*Edward Nelson
Indiana Packers Corporation

*Stewart Owens
Bob Evans Farms, Inc.
(Immediate Past Chairman)

*Larry Odom
Odom's Tennessee Pride Sausage, Inc.

John Oedzes
Brown Packing Co., Inc./Dutch Valley Veal

Stewart Prosser
Cryovac, Division, Sealed Air Corp.

Allen Purnell
F.B. Purnell Sausage Company, Inc.

Robert Rebholtz
Agri Beef Company
Roger Reiser
Robert Reiser and Co., Inc.
Thomas Routh
J.H. Routh Packing Company
Mike Rozzanno
Plumrose USA

John Rueb
Southwest Hide Company

William Rupp
Cargill Meat Solutions/ Excel Corporation

T.J. Russell
Cloverdale Foods Company

Alan Simon
Omaha Steaks International, Inc.
*Richard Searer
Kraft Foods Global, Inc.
W. Lackey Stephens
R.L. Zeigler Co., Inc.
Dwight Stiehl
Rose Packing Company
Launa Stayer-Maloney
Johnsonville Sausage

*Dick Veale
Harland M. Braun Co./ Braun Export 

*Dennis D. Vignieri
Kenosha Beef International, Ltd.
*Fritz Usinger
Fred Usinger, Inc.
*Norbert Woodhams
Pierre Foods, Inc.

As of 10/2004