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As group vice president of Hormel Foods and president of Jennie-O Turkey Store, Michael D. Tolbert oversees the company's Jennie-O Turkey Store business segment.
Tolbert started his career with Hormel Foods in 1979 with the grocery products sales force in Dallas, Texas, and, in 1981, transferred to San Diego, Calif. In 1985, he was promoted to grocery products district manager of the Oklahoma district and relocated to a similar capacity with the San Francisco district two years later.
In 1991, Tolbert became grocery products regional manager of the west central region, based in Chicago. He transferred to the company’s corporate office in Austin, Minn. in 1996 as grocery products national manager of business development and advanced to director of grocery products business development four years later. He was promoted to chief information officer in 2002 and assumed his current position in 2004.
Tolbert is a graduate of The Ohio State University in Columbus where he earned a bachelor of science degree in agricultural economics.
Tolbert is a board member on the Willmar Area Development Council, member of the National Turkey Federation Executive Committee and chair of the National Turkey Federation Marketing Committee. | 