Meet Our Team

Charlie Ellington serves as the Senior Nutritional Specialist with a focus on Ruminant Nutrition. Charlie grew up on a dairy and grain farm outside of East Canton where he worked from the time he could feed calves through college. He attended The Ohio State University, where he received his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture focusing on Animal Sciences and Agricultural Business.

Charlie and his wife, Casey, have four children and live outside of Louisville, Ohio. Charlie remains very involved in agriculture. He runs a cattle feeding operation, owns part of one of his family’s dairy farms, and farms a couple hundred acres of cash crops. He also stays involved with multiple agricultural groups and has been fortunate enough to hold leadership positions at the local, state, and national level through his involvement.

Dave Hamric serves as a nutritional consultant specializing in beef and swine. Dave grew up on a beef and swine farm in rural Harrison County. He began his co-op career in 1982 at Cadiz Landmark. Dave has worked for the cooperative for 41 years splitting his time, and years, between management and nutritional consulting.  

Dave and his wife Lin reside outside of Jewett, Ohio. They have three grown children and three grandsons. Dave and Lin also work with her father maintaining a 75 head cow/calf and hay production operation on the family farm. When he isn’t busy helping his cooperative customers, or working on the farm, Dave also serves on the board for the Harrison County Farm Bureau. 

Joe Holler serves as a dairy nutrition specialist on the Heritage Animal Nutrition team. Growing up on a registered Holstein dairy farm in Pennsylvania has provided a solid foundation of knowledge and experience in his current role. ​Although dairy is Joe’s main focus, he enjoys feeding and working with other types of livestock as well. Joe has 20 years of experience in nutrition and looks forward to working with you to determine the best solution for your animals.

Joe and his wife Susan, along with their daughter Julie, currently own 50 head of dairy cattle. He enjoys attending various dairy shows throughout the year and helping his daughter out with her herd of show cattle that she exhibits throughout the east coast.

Tommy Wise serves as a beef nutrition specialist in the southeast Ohio region for Heritage Cooperative. Tommy grew up on a beef cattle operation in rural Portage County, Ohio and showed fat steers through 4-H. 

He studied Livestock Production & Management at The Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute (ATI) in Wooster, Ohio. During his college career, Tommy had an internship that got him acquainted with the seedstock industry. Today, Tommy currently lives in Southeast Ohio with his wife. He has stayed involved with the seedstock industry working with his parents to raise a handful of seedstock cows in his hometown in Northeast Ohio. Though Tommy and his family specialize in Simmentals, he likes all cattle – any size, shape, and form – and looks forward to working with you and your herd! 

Wholesale Feed Specialist, Brian Founds, has more than 30 years of experience in the animal feed industry. Before joining Heritage Cooperative, Brian started his career focusing on beef and dairy nutrition with Landmark Co-op but he has worn many hats over the years. Now he is focused on developing the vast dealer network and distribution channels for the Performance Feed line.

Bryan began his co-op career in 1989 after graduating from The Ohio State University with a B.S. Degree in Agriculture. After managing a farm store in South Charleston, Ohio he quickly realized his passion for feed sales and eventually focused predominately on beef feed sales.
 
He left the cooperative in 1999 to start and open a business with his father in the mortgage industry. After a decade in lending and 7 years as an outside sales representative for an industrial support company, Bryan came back to his roots and re-discovered his passion to sell beef feed serving as a Beef Solutions Advisor.
 
Currently, Bryan splits his time between Heritage Animal Nutrition/Performance Feed wholesale (75%) and farm sales supporting our Mechanicsburg, Ohio branch (25%). Bryan resides in Enon, Ohio with his wife Heather, son Cole, and daughter Riley. When he’s not helping our customers with their animal nutrition needs, he enjoys spending time with family, golfing, competitive bass fishing, cooking, and helping his daughter with her market goats.