NTCA Announces 2020 Board Chair, Officers 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For Immediate Release
Contact:  Carolyn Just, 703-351-2015, [email protected] 

Arlington, Va. (December 3, 2019)—NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association today announced new board officers for 2020. Allen R. Hoopes, CEO/chairman of Silver Star Communications (Freedom, Wyo.), was elected board chairman, J. Fredrick “Fred” Johnson, chief executive officer of Farmers Telecommunications Cooperative (Rainsville, Ala.), was elected vice chairman, and H. Keith Oliver, senior vice president of corporate operations for Home Telephone Co. (Moncks Corner, S.C.), was elected secretary/treasurer. 

Hoopes has served on the NTCA Board of Directors for five years. His 33 years of experience in both the broadband and mobile wireless industries have provided opportunities to serve as a board member on the Governor-appointed Wyoming Business Council, and he  currently serves as a board member and past chairman of the Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative. During his tenure as board chairman and CEO, Silver Star Communications has grown to provide gigabit speed broadband services and 4G mobile wireless to western Wyoming and eastern Idaho.


The following NTCA members will serve on the 2020 board:

Central Region
Commercial: Doug Boone, Premier Communications (Sioux Center, Iowa)
Cooperative: Ron Hinds, GRM Networks (Princeton, Mo.)

North Central Region
Commercial: John Klatt, Lakeland Communications Group, LLC (Milltown, Wis.)
Cooperative: Kevin Beyer, Acira (Chokio, Minn.) powered by Farmers Mutual Telephone Company (Bellingham, Minn.) and Federated Telephone Cooperative (Chokio, Minn.)

Northeast Region
Commercial: Mike Grisham, Shawnee Telephone Company (Equality, Ill.)
Cooperative: Barry Adair, Wabash Communications Co-Op. (Louisville, Ill.)

Northwest Region
Commercial: Allen R. Hoopes, Silver Star Communications (Freedom, Wyo.)
Cooperative: Roxie Mayberry, Matanuska Telephone Association (Palmer, Alaska)

Southeast Region
Commercial: H. Keith Oliver, Home Telephone Co. (Moncks Corner, S.C.)
Cooperative: Fred Johnson, Farmers Telecommunications Cooperative (Rainsville, Ala.)

Southwest Region
Commercial: Russell “Rusty” A. Moore, Big Bend Telephone Co. (Alpine, Texas)
Cooperative: Bill Hegmann, Southwest Arkansas Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (Texarkana, Ark.)

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