Rob Richard
Distinguished Service | 2021

Rob Richard grew up in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, and started his lifelong love with the pork industry while in high school. Upon high school graduation, he moved to Stillwater and into the Oklahoma State University Swine Center, where he worked his entire college career. Upon graduation from college in 1983, Rob went to work for what is now the National Swine Registry.

During his career in the pork industry, Rob has worked for: PIC as a 3,600 sow farm manager, The Pork Group in multiple roles, Pillen Family Farms as lead officer and Osborne Industries as national sales manager. Today, Rob is the national account manager for DNA Genetics. He has been in that role for 10 years and primarily services the south and southeast United States in that position.

Rob says his most important job has been that of being a dad and Grandpa Robbie. He is incredibly proud of his children Kyle, Ellen and Kade, and special little blessings, his grandchildren, Kiptyn and Claire. In what spare time he finds away from work, it is almost certain he can be found on a golf course somewhere in the world.