Fourth generation family member Tom Nieman is the president, owner, and head chef. Fromm Family Foods was inherited by Tom Nieman in 1983 from his Grandmother Erna Fromm. The Company, as it was originally named, has been privately owned and family operated since it was started in 1904. Tom has a chemical engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and formulates all of our dry pet food at our plants in Wisconsin. He was an understudy to the late Dr. Willard Roberts, Ph.D., who is recognized as the pioneer of dry pet food.