The Power of Connections

APPENDIX I

CEOS 1998–2021

Along with the CREC Board of Directors, the cooperative’s team of executives are led by the president/CEO (this position’s former title was general manager/CEO) and oversee CREC’s daily operations. Since CREC’s beginning, the cooperative has had eleven CEOs, including interim/acting.

1941–1947 1947–1948 1948–1951 1951–1968

Walter E. Longanecker

1976

Rolla G. Henry (acting)

Langdon Gentry Smith (acting)

1976–1981

E. Paul Bienvenue

Harold W. Eaton

1981

Cecil Hupper (acting) Bill Ramsey (second term)

Langdon Gentry Smith John “Gill” Shrout (acting)

1981–1990 1991–2017

1968

Dan L. Brown 2017–Present Doug Tracy

1968–1976

Bill Ramsey

Doug Tracy is CREC’s current CEO, as RI

Dan L. Brown served as CEO from 1991 WR

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