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GCI's Senior Executive Team
- Ronald Duncan, President, CEO and Co-Founder
- G. Wilson Hughes, Executive Vice President and General Manager
- Richard P. Dowling, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development
- John Lowber, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
- Dana L. Tindall, Senior Vice President, Legal, Regulatory and Government
- William C. Behnke, Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives
- Gregory F. Chapados, Senior Vice President
Read a Statement from GCI President and CEO Ronald Duncan.
Ronald Duncan, President, CEO and Co-Founder
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Ronald Duncan is one of the founders of GCI and has been president and CEO since 1989. He previously served GCI as executive vice president. Duncan serves on the Board of Directors of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association. He is also on the Board of the National Business Aviation Association. He is past chairman of the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation and the Alaska Science and Technology Foundation. Prior to starting GCI, Duncan founded and was president of an Alaska-based cable television company and was a partner at a management and economic consulting firm. Duncan received a Bachelor's degree in economics from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. |
G. Wilson Hughes, Executive Vice President and General Manager
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Wilson Hughes was named Chief Operating Officer of GCI in June 1991. Hughes has more than 35 years of experience as an executive, engineer and project manager in the communications, engineering and construction industries in Alaska. He is past chairman of the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation and is past chairman of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority. Prior to joining GCI, Hughes was president of Northern Air Cargo of Anchorage, Alaska. He has also served as president of Enserch Alaska Services Inc., an Alaska construction company and Frank Moolin & Associates, Inc., an Anchorage engineering firm. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla and a master's in science and engineering management from the University of Alaska. |
Richard P. Dowling, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development
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Richard Dowling has served as GCI's senior vice president of corporate development since early 1991. Previously, Dowling served as vice president of engineering and operations, in charge of GCI's general technical and operational management, with responsibilities for system development, quality of service, system integrity and the development of new cost saving strategies. Before joining GCI in 1981, Dowling was the principal advisor on Telecommunications Policy to the Governor of Alaska. Prior to that, he was the deputy director and chief engineer of the Alaska Office of Telecommunications. |
John Lowber, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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John Lowber has been the senior vice president and chief financial officer of the company since December, 1989. Prior to that, Lowber was vice president, administration for the company from 1985 to December 1989. He has been chief financial officer for the company since January 1987 and secretary/treasurer of the company since July, 1988. Prior to joining the company, Lowber was a senior manager at KPMG Peat Marwick. |
Dana L. Tindall, Senior Vice President, Legal, Regulatory and Governmental Affairs
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Dana Tindall has been senior vice president, legal, regulatory and govermental affairs for GCI since mid-1993 and was previously GCI's vice president of regulatory affairs.Tindall is responsible for the development and implementation of the company's regulatory, legal and and governmental strategies and positions. She has been with GCI for over 24 years. Tindall has served as an adjunct professor of regulatory economics at Alaska Pacific University. She is a past board member of both the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation and the Alaska Council on Economic Education. Tindall received her bachelor's degree in economics and masters degree in public policy from the University of Michigan. |
William C. Behnke, Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives
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William "Bill" Behnke served as president of GCI Network Systems since it was acquired by GCI in 1989. In October 1993, the sales and marketing departments of GCI and GCI Network Systems were consolidated and Behnke was named senior vice president of the new sales and marketing department. Prior to that, Behnke was a senior vice president and manager of marketing and sales for Transalaska Data Systems, before it was acquired by GCI and renamed GCI Network Systems. Behnke received his bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration from the University of Wisconsin. |
Gregory F. Chapados, Senior Vice President
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Greg Chapados has served as senior vice president since June 2006. Prior to joining GCI, Chapados was a managing director at two boutique investment banks in Dallas, Texas, specializing in the defense and telecommunications industries and served as senior vice president, new business development at Crown Media, a cable system subsidiary of Hallmark Cards. Before moving to Dallas, Chapados served as Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information in the U.S. Department of Commerce during the George H. W. Bush administration and chief of staff to Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK). |
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