Merchandisers
Jesse Chartier
Jesse joined the FITC team after completing a summer internship in the summer of 2009.
After completing his BA in Agricultural Business from Morrisville State College in Morrisville, NY, he joined the team as Joe Hodgson’s traders assistant working with the OH and PA markets, focusing on truck logistics of wheat midds, cottonseed, soy meal and soy hulls. Jesse assists with rail shipment logistics on soy meal, canola, by pass protein, among other commodities. Jesse enjoys boating, traveling and tinkering with any old machinery.
Daniel Demeree
Dan grew up on an Upstate NY dairy farm and joined the FITC team after 4 years of working for Consolidated Grain and Barge as merchandiser and facility manager in the Ohio Valley region of the Midwest.
Dan is working to grow the grain business for the company as well as other opportunities. Dan graduated from Cornell University in 2011 with a BS in Agricultural Science and minor in Business. Dan enjoys playing sports and motorcycling when the weather offers the opportunity.
Kyle Laurie
Prior to joining the FITC in March of 2022, he managed a large ag logistics business in Vermont, with responsibility of 4 terminals and over 100 drivers, servicing the Vermont and New England area. Prior to that, Kyle was heavily involved with his family grain and maple sugaring operations.
Kyle merchandises an array of agricultural commodities, including distillers grains, soyhulls and wheat midds. He graduated with a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Potsdam State University. Kyle currently lives in St. Albans, VT. He enjoys staying active outside, plays a lot of golf and enjoys traveling.
Greg McCulloch
Greg has been a shareholder at FITC since 2013, becoming the majority shareholder in 2019. Prior to FITC, he was an equity trader at Broadway Trading in New York, NY.
Greg has a M.A. in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. Outside the office, he enjoys lacrosse, snowboarding and mountain biking.
Mike O’Meara
Mike has been with FITC since 2007. Immediately prior, Mike was Operations Manager for one of the region’s largest Home Depot stores where he was responsible for 65% of the store’s sales and managing 150 employees.
For FITC, he focuses on the canola meal, beet pulp, and citrus pulp markets, in addition to managing rail logistics. Mike also handles the purchasing for one of FITC’s largest dedicated accounts. Mike graduated in 1997 with a BS in Business Management from Canisius College. He is married with two daughters and one son.
Chris Pierpont
Chis has been a shareholder at FITC since 2019. Chris came to FITC from Lansing Trade Group with 8 years experience of trading, most of which was with Interstate Commodities.
He trades many different feed ingredients including distillers grains,
cottonseed and wheat midds. Chris has a B.A. degree in communications
from Quinnipiac University. He likes to stay active playing golf in the
summer and skiing in the winter and also loves to travel. Chris is from
Niskayuna, NY and currently resides in Albany, NY.
Samantha Schwartz
Samantha joined FITC in 2021. Her primary trading focus is wheat midds.