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This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the Livestock space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Frank Wooten
CEO of Vence
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About Vence: Vence was founded to improve the affordability and availability of sustainable animal protein.

David Edwards
Founder & CEO & President of automed
David has never met a challenge he wasn’t fired up to tackle, as he’s proven time and time again across a 17-year career in product and business development. His current focus is automed, a livestock medication solution with the potential for widespread adoption across the global livestock industry. David is highly skilled in engineering and business, having designed and managed projects in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, software, and electronics. These global projects have necessitated David also implementing sales, marketing, logistics, manufacturing, and aftermarket support, for a truly well-rounded set of abilities. David has worked across many industries, from aquaculture to rail and even mining and manufacturing. But his greatest passion has always been agriculture and sustainability. Returning to the farm of his youth, David has gone back to his roots to focus on developing automed into a product with the potential to impact an entire industry.
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About automed: automed is a comprehensive system designed to provide solutions for challenges surrounding compliance and traceability.

Jay Debertin
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director of CHS Hedging
Jay Debertin is executive vice president and chief operating officer, Energy and Foods, for CHS, a diversified energy, grains and foods company based in St. Paul, Minn. Debertin leads the company’s diverse energy operations and processing and food ingredients. Energy includes refineries, pipelines and terminals, refined fuels, propane, lubricants and transportation. CHS Processing and Food Ingredients includes manufacturing facilities in the U.S., China and Israel. He also serves as chairman for the Ventura Foods, LLC, its vegetable oil-based foods joint venture. Debertin joined CHS in 1984 in its petroleum division and held a variety of positions in its energy marketing operations. He was named vice president, Crude Oil Supply, in 1998 based in the company’s Denver, Colo., office. In 2001, he returned to St. Paul, Minn., with responsibilities including raw material supply, refining, pipelines and terminals, trading and risk management, and transportation. He has held his current responsibilities since 2014. Debertin also serves as chairman for Ventura Foods. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of North Dakota in 1982 and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1984.
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About CHS Hedging: Commodity brokerage of CHS Inc providing market intelligence, insight and price risk management to farmers, ranchers and agribusinesses.

Jim Cairns
Founder – CEO of Remote Insights
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About Remote Insights: Behavior monitoring for healthier, more productive pigs – Detect when they are sick, in heat (for insemination), giving birth….
Joseph Massey
CEO of DigitalBeef
Joseph Massey is the CEO of DigitalBeef.
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About DigitalBeef: DigitalBeef is an information tracking and data banking company for the beef cattle industry.