Steve Weiss-Panelist

Mr. Weiss is founder and CEO of NutriQuest, CEO of Hoover’s Hatchery and a partner in 21^st Century Strategic Forums.  He also serves as a Board member for several enterprises in the U.S. swine industry and non-profit sectors.

At NutriQuest, Steve leads a team which has developed and commercialized technologies to improve livestock and poultry performance and help solve key industry challenges like humane euthanasia and improving bacon quality, among others.  NutriQuest acquired Hoover’s Hatchery in 2015 and, through growth and acquisition, transformed a regional business to the largest producer of chicks for the backyard farming industry in the U.S. Steve has also been an active and outspoken industry leader in his role with 21^st Century Strategic Forums and in leading industry efforts and dialogue around animal rights activists, preserving antibiotics, fake meat and other industry challenges.

Mr. Weiss was previously a founder and CFO at Iowa Select Farms, which today is the fourth largest swine producer in the U.S.  He has also served as a turnaround specialist for several companies, and a consultant to numerous distressed production agriculture businesses, in each case accomplishing successful restructurings or the sale and continuity of those businesses.

Mr. Weiss, a CPA, was a founding partner of Roth & Company, a Des Moines, Iowa based CPA firm subsequently acquired by Eide Bailly, and was Manager of Middle Market Services for Deloitte from 1985 to 1990.