Our Team
The Swine Insights Core team is composed of high skilled and experienced independent consultants and employees who collaborate to serve Swine Insights clients. Each team member contributes a complimentary set of talents and skills that improves the breadth and depth of our client offerings. The team also shares a set of fundamental core values that guide how we work with each other and with clients. Scroll down to learn more about each member of our talented team.
Todd Thurman, Lead Consultant & Founder
Todd is the Founder of Swine Insights International and an International Swine Management Consultant with 25 years experience. He has worked in more than 17 countries on 5 continents.
He provides consulting and training services to clients, guides Swine Insights' strategic direction and writes and speaks about important issues facing the global agriculture industry.
Todd is based at Swine Insights Global Headquarters near Fort Worth, Texas
He can be reached by email at todd@swineinsights.com
Jamee Eggers, Consultant
Jamee is a Consultant focusing on strategic consulting projects and auditing solutions for Swine Insights Clients. She has extensive experience in the Pork and broader Agriculture Industries having worked for the Iowa Pork Producers Association, the National Pork Board and the Colorado Department of Agriculture.
Jamee has extensive experience in Animal Welfare and is a Certified Animal Welfare Auditor, a Level II Animal Cruelty Investigator, a Pork quality Assurance Trainer and Transport Quality Assurance Trainer.
Jamee has been working with Swine Insights since 2023 and is based in Central Iowa.
She can be reached at jeggers@rafterjconsulting.com
Dave Bauer, Consultant
With over three decades of expertise in analyzing global grain and livestock markets, Dave blends a profound understanding of current and historical data with a seasoned perspective on technical analysis and trend forecasting for related commodity prices.
Dave has a passion for delivering strategic market insights and works together with producers to customize their independent margin profile.
The real success comes when producers focus on this margin profile to initiate marketing decisions, rather than focus on the rollercoaster of emotions called the futures markets.
His insightful commentary and in-depth analysis projects benefit internal teams and producer groups alike.”
Dave Joined the Swine Insights team in 2024 and is based in Southwest Wisconsin.
Dave can be contacted at davidbauer1440@gmail.com
Tom Streit, Consultant
Tom is retired from Cargill Animal Nutrition, where he was a National Accounts Manager. He continues to find ways to deliver value to pork producers by leveraging the expertise he developed in nutrition, animal production, ventilation, cashflows, and pig flow analysis.
Today, as an independent consultant and owner of Streit Solutions, he specializes in designing animal flows and producing CAD drawings of new and remodeled facilities. He often says it is easier to make changes to a plan with paper and pencil versus concrete and rebar. He has designed over two hundred production facilities including new construction and remodels/conversions.
Tom has been working with Swine Insights since 2023 and is based in Owatonna, Minnesota
Tom can be contacted at tstreit57@gmail.com
Anu Frank-Lawale, PhD, Consultant
Anu earned his BS in Agriculture and Food Sciences from the University of Nottingham, his MS in Animal Breeding from the University of Edinburgh and his PhD in Genetics from the University of Stirling/Roslin Institute, Edinburgh. He has broad experience in the poultry, swine and aquaculture genetics, but he has a special affinity for working with pigs and pig people.
Anu has worked on 4 continents and speaks 4 languages. He prides himself on being a hands on geneticist and he's happiest when working directly, hands on, with producers to help them improve their genetics and breeding programs.
Anu joined Swine Insights in April of 2024 and is based in Bentonville, Arkansa where he lives with his wife and two children.
Anu can be reached by email at anufranklawale@googlemail.com
Tisha Thurman, Accounting
Tisha is the Bookkeeper and Office Manager for Swine Insights International. She is responsible for Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable and can handle any invoicing or payment questions.
She has more than 25 years experience in accounting and is familiar with the ag industry having worked for Cargill Animal Nutrition and several Beef Cattle Feedlots in Texas prior to joining Swine Insights.
Tisha has been with Swine Insights since 2017 and is based at Swine Insights Global Headquarters in Texas.
She can be reached by email at tisha@swineinsights.com