Women of BSM Partners for Women's History Month | Part 4

Sydney McCauley, PhD, PAS, Dpl. ACAS-Nutrition

What is your title at BSM Partners?

Manager of Companion Animal Nutrition

How long have you been with BSM Partners?

2.5 years

What do you do at BSM Partners? 

My role as Manager of Companion Animal Nutrition at BSM Partners is to formulate functional diets, supplements, and treats for companion animals. In addition, one of my favorite roles is to do educational write-ups for our clients and consumers. I think my favorite part about it is being able to keep up to date on new and existing ingredients and their functionality in the animal. To be able to take that information and provide the best nutritional advice I can to clients to help them make decisions.

What do you do outside of BSM Partners? 

In addition to my job at BSM Partners, my husband and I own and sell bison. Bourbon County Bison is located in Bourbon County, Kentucky.  We sell bison meat not just at farmer’s markets, but to local grocery stores here in Kentucky. In addition to the bison farm, for fun, I like to ride and show my horse, Izzy.

 

 

 

Whitney Russell

What is your title at BSM Partners?

Product Innovation Analyst in Product Innovation Services

How long have you been with BSM Partners?                                   

1.5 years

What do you do at BSM Partners?

As a Product Innovation Analyst at BSM Partners my day-to-day consists of meeting with customers and formulating petfood such as canned diets, kibble diets, and treats. I also enjoy helping with graphics and content for the BSM website.

What do you do outside of BSM Partners?

 In my personal life for the past year, I have been documenting my investment property project on TikTok where I have gained a consistent following. It is a fun way to see the progress of the project and to encourage other young people get involved. The project also instills a lot of patience and mental growth.

 

 

Blaire Aldridge, MS, PhD

What is your title at BSM Partners?

Director of Nutrition

How long have you been with BSM Partners?

6 months 

What do you do at BSM Partners?

I get to help create amazing supplements and complete & balance food for our cherished pets. It’s an honor to do this as my profession, and I love creating amazing, delicious, and efficacious formulations for these animals!

What do you do outside of BSM Partners?

Outside of BSM I play with my horses and the great outdoors.

 

 

Renee Streeter, DVM, DACVIM

What is your title at BSM Partners?

Nutrition Practice Principal

How long have you been with BSM Partners?

2 years

What do you do at BSM Partners?

Review formulations and formulate diets, treats, and supplements as well as all the research required to do this successfully. Education and prospective research are also a part of what I do. 

What do you do outside of BSM Partners?

I have two boys ages 7 and 11 who keep me very busy. As a family, we are active members of our church and like to ski and mountain bike. I also love music and running though I’m pretty slow nowadays. I still care for patients remotely through diet recommendations and formulations through their veterinarians. In addition, I have my own small supplement company which is a vitamin and mineral chewable for homemade diets. I’m especially proud of being able to do all this with screaming, wrestling children, barking dogs, meowing cats, and screaming birds in the background. 

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About the Authors

Dr. Blaire Aldridge is the Vice President of Nutrition Services at BSM Partners. Throughout her career, Dr. Aldridge has been one of the industry’s primary innovators in companion animal nutrition, leading teams at Nestle Purina to groundbreaking products and solutions. She is also an experienced innovator for equine nutrition. Dr. Aldridge received her master’s degree and PhD in monogastric nutrition at Purdue University, and conducted post-doctoral work in human nutrition at Washington University Medical School.

Renee Streeter is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Nutrition). She obtained her Bachelor's degree in Animal Science from Cornell University and served as a farm animal nutritionist for a major feed company before attending veterinary school at Ross University. Her clinical rotations were done at Cornell University’s college of veterinary medicine, where she stayed on to do her Clinical Nutrition residency. While working in a large general practice and doing clinical nutrition consultation, Dr. Streeter also founded her own veterinary nutrition consulting company and currently helps industry clients through her position as the Nutrition Practice Principal at BSM Partners.

Dr. Sydney McCauley is a Board-Certified Companion Animal Nutritionist and earned both her bachelor’s and doctoral degrees at Virginia Tech in Animal and Poultry Sciences. McCauley’s research was in nutritional physiology with a focus on understanding the effects of low birth weight on glucose, fatty acid, carbohydrate, and amino acid metabolism in skeletal muscle and overall metabolic homeostasis during neonatal development.

Whitney Russell formerly served as a Senior Analyst for BSM Partners, where she worked with customers to formulate a variety of canned, kibble, and freeze-dried diets for dogs and cats. She has previous laboratory expertise with various techniques to accurately prepare raw materials, wet-finished products, and dry-finished products for laboratory testing. Whitney is currently a Project Manager with Naterra International, Inc.