Our Team

Employee Owners

The key to our success is our over 750 associates, many of whom have made Mead and Knecht their workplace for life. Almost two dozen associates have more than 30 years of service with our company. Our front-line employees, particularly our drivers, inside and outside sales people, office support, manufacturing, and local management personnel that interface with our customer’s everyday define who we are as a company. The culture of our company, combined with our commitment to providing a safe yet fast paced work environment, solid growth opportunities, attractive compensation and fringe benefits, has created an outstanding work force that is very talented, loyal and hardworking.  In addition to the Mead Family, the company has over 400 Employee Owners who are committed to making Mead Lumber our customer's choice for Lumber, Building Materials, Hardware and Trusses.

The Mead management team consists of the following individuals, each of them committed to providing a great and meaningful work environment for our associates, suppliers, community, owners, and our customers. Feel free to contact any of us if we can help you in any way, or if you have any other thoughts and recommendations which we could help improve our company, and/or share feedback with our valued associates.

Mead Lumber Team

• Craig Bradshaw - President
• Ryan Rudd - Division Manager
• Tim Koll - Purchasing
• Cal Riley - Marketing
• Preston Lentfer - System Analyst
• Tom Loseke - Finance
• Sue Hanzel - Human Resources
• Kate Mead - Credit Manager