About Us
Accessible. Reliable. Driven.
Protein Associates is your trusted business partner providing support in the food industry for all meat proteins. Today, our reach has expanded selling to a wide variety of customers from grocery stores to national restaurant chains, processors and food service distributors. With several offices around the country, Protein Associates rapidly growing trading business supports customers nationwide.
Meet The Team
Zach Fine
CEO – Protein Associates
As Chief Executive Officer since 2018, Zachary Fine leads the Holly Poultry, Inc. senior leadership team focusing on generational growth and success.
Zach joined the business starting at the bottom just like his Dad did decades before. Zach leads with youth, energy and an MBA from UMUC. He lives by Holly Poultry’s Three Cs: culture conscious, customer driven and community focused. Zach’s high energy and aggressive plans inspire his teams to be the best, strive to maintain the highest quality, and to think and work in fresh and innovative ways.
Zach lives with his wife and four children in Howard County, MD where he was born and raised. Zach enjoys coaching his children in sports and spending time with family and friends.
Stephanie McShane
CFO –Protein Associates
As Chief Financial Officer, I am responsible for overseeing the corporate functions in support of the company objectives, including Finance, IT and Human Resources, which allows me to do what I love best - share my knowledge of process improvement, employee development and risk management processes that enhance our overall ability to make good business decisions in a timely manner while managing risk at all levels of the organization.
Prior to joining Holly, I worked for several Fortune 100 companies in a variety of industries, around the world. As a military spouse, I found it hard to balance my career, support my husband and be available for our son, so I choose to leave the workforce in 2014 to focus on my family. Following my husband’s retirement from the military in 2018, I was looking for an opportunity to share my knowledge and was excited to find a role at Holly that would allow me to not only share my experience with others but develop new skills as well.
Professionally, I have more than 20 years of leadership and finance experience. Prior to joining Holly Poultry in 2018, my last employer was British Petroleum where I worked in multiple roles across the organization, including solar, retail, pipelines, drilling, and major upstream projects, ending as the project manager for BP’s upstream risk management and reporting.
I am a graduate of Hope College, (Class 1990) with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Economics. In 1995, I earned a Master of Science in Accounting from the Haworth College of Business at Western Michigan University and passed the CPA exam in 1997.
I live with my husband and son in Anne Arundel County, MD, where we enjoy a variety of water sports and spend time hanging out together as a family while we plan our next great travel adventure.
Terence Wells
Sales Manager
twells@proteinassociates.com
(410) 727-6210 ext. 155
I joined Protein Associates in 2018 as a trader of commodity meat and poultry. Prior to that, I worked as a Poultry Market Reporter with Urner Barry for nearly 7 years.
I am a graduate of Rider University (Class 2009) and hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, with a concentration in Marketing.
I live with my wife and sons in Toms River, NJ. When I am not at work I enjoy spending time coaching my sons’ teams, playing ice hockey and golfing.
Robin Mitchell
Sales Manager
rmitchell@proteinassociates.com
(410) 727-6210 ext. 212
I graduated from Kennesaw State University with a bachelor’s of finance. I worked at Seaboard Farms in college then had 20 years in the fitness industry. I have been working at Protein Associates for 5 years. I am married with 2 kids Lee(27) and McKenna(21) and live in Conover, NC. My hobbies include golf and anything involving fitness.