Management and Directors

Michael F. Brigham
President and Chief Executive Officer, Director

Mr. Brigham was appointed to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer in February 2000, while maintaining the titles of Treasurer and Secretary, and was appointed to serve as a Director of the Company in March 1999. He previously had been elected Vice President of the Company in December 1998 and had served as Chief Financial Officer since October 1991. He has served as Secretary since December 1995 and as Treasurer since October 1991. Prior to that, he served as Director of Finance and Administration since originally joining the Company in September 1989. Mr. Brigham has been a member of the Board of Directors of the United Way of York County since 2012, serving as its Treasurer until June 2016 and is presently Vice Chair of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Governance Committee. Mr. Brigham served as the Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the Kennebunk Free Library from 2005 to 2011. He re-joined the Finance Committee of the library in 2012. Prior to joining the Company, he was employed as an audit manager for the public accounting firm of Ernst & Young. Mr. Brigham earned his Masters in Business Administration from New York University in 1989.

Timothy C. Fiori
Chief Financial Officer

Mr Fiori was elected to serve as Chief Financial Officer effective April 7, 2025. For the past 24 years, Mr Fiori has held various financial and commercial operating positions at Idexx Laboratories in Westbrook, Maine, most recently as its Senior Director Finance, Commercial Operations since 2020. He graduated with honors from the University of Maine, Orono with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance in 2001.

Bobbi Jo Brockmann
Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Director

Ms. Brockmann joined the Company as Director of Sales and Marketing in January 2010 and was promoted to Vice President of Sales and Marketing in February 2015. Prior to that, she had been employed as Director of Sales since May 2008 and Sales Manager from February 2004 to April 2008 at APC, Inc. of Ankeny, Iowa, a developer and marketer of functional protein products for animal health and nutrition. Prior to that, she held other sales and marketing positions at APC, W & G Marketing Company, Inc. of Ames, Iowa, The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology of Ames, Iowa and Meyocks Group Advertising of West Des Moines, Iowa after graduating from Iowa State University.

Gloria J. Basse
Director

Ms. Basse is a member of the Compensation and Stock Option Committee of the Board of Directors. She has been the senior executive director of Tonisity International, an animal nutrition company with offices in Ireland, Brazil and the United States, from 2017 to the present. Since 2016, Ms. Basse has been a Senior Associate at the Context Network, a business management and strategy consulting firm providing services to agriculture, biotechnology and food companies. She held various positions at Zoetis Inc. (formerly Pfizer Animal Health) from 1985 to 2015 and most recently served as Vice President of its U.S. pork business. Ms. Basse is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and earned her Masters in Business Administration from the University of Rochester.

Bryan Gathagan
Director

Mr. Gathagan is the owner and a managing member of broad Thinking, LLC, a management consulting firm and has 25 years of animal health experience. He is a founding member of Animalytix LLC and has served as its Chief Financial and Chief Technology Officer since it began operations in 2010. Prior to Animalytix, he was a senior executive and Vice President of IT and Finance for Intervet, Inc. and oversaw various finance, IT, and general business functions between 1998 to 2008, including 3 years in a global role based in The Netherlands. Before entering the animal health industry, he served as a Vice President at MBNA and Norwest Bank responsible for various IT functions and started his career in IT roles at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He holds a BS in Information Systems Management from UMBC and an MS in Business from Johns Hopkins University.

Steven T. Rosgen
Director

Mr. Rosgen, based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has more than 28 years of experience building brand strategies for products, services and organizations in a range of industries including working with leading global agricultural brands. Currently, he is President of Strategem Research Inc., a company he founded in 2005 to integrate consumer insights into clients’ pricing and branding strategies. Previously, he was a senior partner with Street Smart Strategic Planning. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Calgary.

David S. Tomsche, D.V.M.
Chair of the Board

Dr. Tomsche was appointed to serve as Chair of the Board of Directors in February 2013 and is a member of the Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors and serves as Chair of that committee. He served on the Audit Committee from February 25, 2014 through March 31, 2014. He is a large animal veterinarian and owner of Leedstone Inc. (formerly Stearns Veterinary Outlet, Inc., an animal health distribution and milking system installation company) and of J-t Enterprises of Melrose, Inc., an exporter of ImmuCell products. He served as a director of VetPharm, Inc., an animal health products distributor, from 1995 until the company was sold in 2007. He also is a dairy producer. He obtained his degrees from the University of Minnesota.

Paul R. Wainman
Director

Mr. Wainman was appointed to the Board of Directors on March 31, 2014 and is a member of the Audit and Nominating Committees and serves as Chair of the Audit Committee. He qualifies to serve as a “financial expert” given his background in accounting and finance. Mr. Wainman served as Chief Financial Officer of Hancock Lumber, a 725-employee lumber and building products company located in Casco, Maine, from February 2016 and its President and CFO from January 2020 until, most recently, becoming President and CEO in January 2023. From April 2015 until February 2016, he was a business strategy and financial consultant specializing in the paper and greeting card industry. Prior to that, he was President of Kleinfeld, a personalized wedding stationery company, from September 2013 until April 2015. From 2005 to 2012, he was President and CEO of William Arthur, Inc., a division of Hallmark Cards, where he led a 275-employee manufacturer of luxury stationery products. Prior to that, he served another division of Hallmark Cards as CFO and COO from 1998 to 2004. He obtained a degree in Accounting and Financial Control from Sheffield City University in England and qualified as a Chartered Accountant of England and Wales in 1990.