Brady Sidwell is the Founder and Principal of Sidwell Strategies, Sidwell Distribution, Enterprise Grain Company, Malt & Specialty Crops, Sidwell Seed, 81 Feed and Seed, Enid Brewing Company and Chisholm Trail Milling.  Mr. Sidwell is also a Limited Partner and member of the Advisory Board of Germin8 Ventures, a Food Tech Venture Capital firm based out of Chicago, and a founding partner of Ninja Ag, LLC, a precision agriculture technology business that creates variable-rate nutrient applications from corrected NDVI imagery.  Mr. Sidwell was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, Oklahoma City Branch in January 2020, the Board of Directors of Feed The Children in October 2024 and Observer Board Seat for MyAgData, a precision platform that streamlines producer reporting for crop insurance and USDA programs, in December 2024.  In May 2025, Mr. Sidwell was appointed to the Board of the Oklahoma Center for Non-Profits.  He is author of the Sidwell Strategies CommodityBuzz, a weekly publication published on Barchart.com and various newspapers that dissects key global economic topics, their impact on commodity markets as well as localized updates regarding agriculture, energy and weather.

Prior to his recent change in becoming an entrepreneurial business owner and commodity broker, Mr. Sidwell was Vice President of Global Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions for the OSI Group, based out of its headquarters near Chicago.  He first joined the company as VP of Corporate Strategy and Business Development for the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA), based in Hong Kong.  At OSI, Mr. Sidwell was responsible for spearheading global strategy and M&A.  

Before joining OSI, Mr. Sidwell was Head of Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory for Rabobank in North East Asia.  He was responsible for cross-border F&A strategies for companies and investors across various sectors in the supply chain.  While at Rabobank, Mr. Sidwell appeared regularly on Bloomberg, CNBC and Reuters TV to discuss the impacts of global and regional food & agriculture developments on Asian and global markets.

Prior to Rabobank, Mr. Sidwell worked on project teams at the U.S. Embassy offices of the U.S.D.A. in South Korea and Thailand.  He holds a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in Agricultural Economics with a focus on International Marketing from Oklahoma State University and a Master of Economics degree from the University of Hong Kong where he studied as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar to China.  Mr. Sidwell was raised on a family farming operation in Goltry, OK, where he lives with his wife Emily, son Henry, and daughter Diana.  He is active in his community as a Rotarian, Ambucs member, Advisory Board and Investment Committee Member of the Cherokee Strip Community Foundation, Class 31 of Leadership Oklahoma, Board of Governors of the Oklahoma State University Foundation and serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the Oklahoma State Ferguson College of Agriculture.