1. Dave Weaber
Vice-President of EMI Analytics, Beef
Express Markets Inc.
Dave joined EMI Analytics and Express Markets, Inc in April 2016 as Vice-President
and is responsible for leading and growing the company’s efforts in beef supply chain
analytics. This includes supply and demand side analysis and forecasting of cattle
numbers and beef supplies as well as domestic and international trade impacts.
Factoring in these variables and their combined effects to price forecasts for various
classes of cattle and beef cuts, the group desires to assess margin impacts and shifts
and strives to better the economic position clients in all areas of the supply chain.
Before joining Express Markets, Inc, Dave served as Economist, leading the Market
Insights Team in the Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain Analytics Group of
Delhaize America, the eleventh largest grocery retailer in the United States. In this
role, Dave was responsible for analysis and strategy guidance in the meat, poultry,
dairy, grains and vegetable oil commodities as well as commodity risk assessment
and management for the banner stores from 2007 to early 2016.
From February 2005 through March 2007, Dave was employed by Swift & Company
as Director of Market Analysis. He was responsible for market research and
forecasting in the cattle, beef, hog and pork markets as well tracking changes in the
other commodity and competing meat markets. Dave also worked in the analysis of
foreign markets and trade.
Prior to joining Swift & Company, Dave spent seven years at Cattle-Fax, most
recently in the position of Director of Research and Special Projects where he was
responsible for analysis of Cattle-Fax feedlot inventory data, short and long term
projections, special research projects and supervising the Research Department.
Dave earned a Master of Science degree in Animal Science from Colorado State
University in 1996. His graduate research focused on ruminant trace mineral
nutrition. He also completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Science at
Colorado State University in 1993. Dave was raised on his family’s cattle and sheep
ranch in Southern Colorado. Dave, his wife Natalie and children reside near Eaton,
Colorado.