New General Manager
Hiring a new manager is never
an easy task and SouthEastern’s Board of Trustees spent numerous hours
evaluating the skills and qualifications of each of the 42 individuals who
applied for the position of Executive Vice President and General Manager of
this State’s largest electric cooperative in terms of energy sales.
After much deliberation, four
candidates were selected for interview.
Two of those candidates were current SouthEastern employees and the
other two were very highly qualified electric cooperative employees from other
states who applied for the position. The
Trustees conducted their interviews on the 4th and 5th of
April, and by late afternoon on the second day had made their decision.
Dustin Tripp, who resides
with his family near Creal Springs on SouthEastern’s lines, is the new General
Manager of your Cooperative.
However, Mr. Tripp is no
stranger to SouthEastern and one might even say his career with us began way back
in 1992 when he worked for your Cooperative while attending the University of Missouri at Rolla.
After graduating Magna Cum
Laude, with a degree in Electrical Engineering from Rolla, Tripp worked with the Black & Veatch
International Engineering Consulting Firm, where he specialized in power plant
design and construction projects.
Next Tripp was employed by
the Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative at Paxton, Illinois as their System
Engineer initially and eventually moved up to the position Manager of
Engineering & Operations for that Cooperative. Tripp managed to earn a Masters in Business
Administration from the University of Illinois before returning home to Southern
Illinois and SouthEastern Electric Cooperative in the fall of
1999.
He has served as
SouthEastern’s Engineering and Customer Service Manager since that time and
officially assumed his duties as General Manager of your Cooperative on May 1st,
2006.
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