August 19, 2016

Mike Pruitt promoted to senior vice president at Cobb

Mike Pruitt, who joined Cobb-Vantress, Inc. three years ago as general manager for North America, has been promoted to senior vice president of support services and pedigree production.

He succeeds Randy Vardeman, who has announced his retirement at the end of this year after serving Tyson Foods and Cobb for the past 22 years. 

Mike Pruitt graduated from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and began his career with Tyson Foods in the Dardanelle complex in Arkansas.  He is widely respected throughout the US broiler industry in which he has worked for well over 30 years.

He moved to OK Foods where he became president in 1990 and then in 1999 to ConAgra Poultry as executive vice president of live operations. After ConAgra's poultry division was purchased by Pilgrim's Pride, he became senior vice president of technical services at Pilgrims in 2004. From 2007 until he joined Cobb-Vantress, he worked at Foster Farms as senior vice president of live operations.