ASSOCIATION STAFF
Executive Department
Brian Mosier
President & CEO
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Brian Mosier serves as the CEO of VMDAEC. Mosier has been with the VMDAEC since 2013, originally serving as vice president of government affairs, and later was promoted to vice president of member and government relations. In 2019, he was promoted to chief operating officer. His 25-year career with electric cooperatives began in 1995 with Union Power Cooperative and continued with Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative as vice president of business development. A native of Wilmington, Del., Mosier is a 1989 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he graduated with a business degree and economics minor and played varsity soccer.
E. Deon Avery
Financial Controller
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Mary Soulios
Director, Executive Services
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Tommy Campbell
Digital Producer
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Jim Robertson
Manager, Member Services
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Brandon Burton
Director, Education
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Nina Jacobs
Production Coordinator
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Regulatory & Legal Affairs
Sam Brumberg
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs & General Counsel
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Sam Brumberg serves as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and General Counsel. His practice on behalf of rural communities spans over a decade and a half across the fields of energy, environmental protection, broadband and utilities. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Richmond. He received his law degree from William and Mary, where he was the managing editor of the Environmental Law and Policy Review. In 2020, he was nominated and qualified as a candidate for a judgeship on the Virginia State Corporation Commission.
Alex Jones
Director of Regulatory Affairs & Counsel
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Governmental Affairs
Kyle Shreve
Vice President, External Affairs
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Kyle has an extensive governmental affairs background that also includes trade association experience including representing the International Dairy Foods Association, Virginia Retail Merchants Association, and the Virginia Association of Health Plans.
Chloe Hodges
Director, Legislative Affairs
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Dathie Washington
Administrative Assistant
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Communications
Gregg MacDonald
Executive Editor
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Gregg MacDonald joined the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives in 2020 as a Senior Writer-Editor for Cooperative Living magazine.
Gregg MacDonald grew up in Ohio and Georgia. He has worked for the Savannah Morning News, as a founding member and Managing Editor of the Volunteer Times in East Tennessee; a writer for the Washington Post and as Executive Editor of the Fairfax County Times. He is an animal rights advocate and lives in Glen Allen, Va. with his wife Andrea, and his dog Logan.
Laura Emery
Deputy Editor
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Sonja Kinney
Advertising Account Representative
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John Grott
Director, Creative Services
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Susan Rowland
Creative Services Coordinator
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Safety & Training Services
Alan Scruggs
Vice President, Safety & Training Services
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Alan began his cooperative career with Central Virginia Electric Cooperative in 1991 as an apprentice lineman and worked his way through the ranks from apprentice to journeyman lineman. He accepted the position of Division Superintendent in 2002 and was promoted to Manager of Operations in 2010. He began his career with VMDAEC in September 2016 as Vice President of Safety and Training Services. Alan completed the NRECA-Robert I. Kabat Management Internship Program in 2010.
JT Jacobs
Manager, Safety Training
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Phil Jarvis
Manager, Safety Services
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Jerone Mabe
Manager, Technical Services
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Rachael Freeman
Director, Safety Training
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Matt Hathaway
Safety Trainer
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Wayne Shrader
Safety Trainer
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Jordan Morgan
Safety Trainer
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Ben Arthur
Lead Mobile Electrical Technician
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Aiden Truslow
Lead Mobile Electrical Technician
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James Thompson
Mobile Electrical Technician
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Cody Chappell
Mobile Electrical Technician
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