Meet the Team

Jason Hitch

• Chairman of the Board

• Co-CEO of Hitch Enterprises, Inc.

• Board of Directors, Bank of the Panhandle

• Director-OK Water Resources Board

• Lawyer

• Member-U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef

Chris Hitch

• President

• Co-CEO of Hitch Enterprises, Inc.

• Member-21st Century Beef Club peer group

• Board of Directors, State Chamber of OK

• Executive Council, State Chamber of OK

• Governor’s Council for Workforce and Economic Development

Mike Brandherm

• Vice Pres/Gen. Mgr-Hitch Pork Producers, Inc.

• 14 yrs pork industry experience before Hitch. 2 years with Seaboard & 12 years at Dekalb Genetics

• Member-21st Century Pork Club peer group

• Ag Production/Mgmt degree-Joliet College

• Raised on a family crop/livestock farm in Northern Illinois

• Was active in coaching sports and Boy Scouts

Tommy Tomlinson

• Vice Pres.-Commodities & Risk Management

• Employed with Hitch’s for 46 years

• BBA Accounting-Midwestern University

• Prior experience-Public Accounting/Oil & Gas

• Controller/BOD-Hitch Feeders I-1972-1989

• Former Kid’s Inc coach/HS Asst Golf coach

• Interests-Golf/College football

Jon Vanwey

• Vice Pres.-Cattle Operations

• BBA major/BBM minor-OK Panhandle State University

• Raised on a ranch in Colorado

• Started in the feedyard industry in 1986 as yard foreman/welder

• 1994 Co-owner in a grow yard and also owned small construction business until 2005

• Managed Friona Industries feedyard-2005-2015

Rina Teel

• Human Resources Manager-Hitch Enterprises, Inc.

• Employed by Hitch’s 2 years

• 15 years in pork industry with Murphy Brown, LLC, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods

• PHR and SHRM-CP certified

• COSS certified

• Bilingual

Ranee Harland

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• Controller-Acctg Mgr-Hitch Enterprises, Inc.

Mike Yates

• IT Manager/Software Developer-All divisions

• BBA CIS-OK. Panhandle State University

• Prior experience-Software Dev/Programmer for PTCI-4 years, Business Analyst/Software Dev-Cargill 2 years

• Texhoma school board member