MNREM Board Members

Executive Committee

Mark Willers, CEO, Minwind Energy, Luverne – Chair

Dave Sunderman, Member Services Manager, BENCO Electric, Mankato; General Manager, CTV; School Board member  – Vice-Chair

Juanita Lauritsen, Executive Director, Southwest Minnesota Workforce Council, Marshall - Secretary-Treasurer

Randy Hagen, President, Solar Skies, Starbuck

Connie Ireland, Regional Administrator, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, Mankato

Lowell Rasmussen, Vice Chancellor, University of Minnesota, Morris

Sherry Ristau, President, Southwest Initiative Foundation, Hutchinson

Richard Shrubb, President, MinnesotaWestCommunity & TechnicalCollege, Worthington

Robert Thurston, President, Thurston Genetics, Olivia

Other members of the Leadership Board

Warrenn Anderson, Attorney, Morris

Diane Halvorson, Director, South Central Workforce Council, Mankato

Tom Hoff, Career and Technical Project Coordinator, Southwest/West Central Service Cooperative, Marshall

Bob Hoffman, Vice President, MinnesotaStateUniversity, Mankato

Jeremy Kovash, Executive Director, Lakes Country Service Coop, FergusFalls

Jerry Larson, Farmer & Chair of Ottertail Ag Enterprises, Elbow Lake

Jan Lundebrek, President, First Security Bank, CVEC Board Member, Benson

Tim Penny, President, Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation, Owatonna

Nancy Straw, President, West Central Initiative, FergusFalls

Kent Thiesse, Vice President, MinnStar Bank; School Board Chair, Lake Crystal

Dennis Timmerman, Senior Project Development Director, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute (AURI), Marshall

Bob Weerts, Owner and Operator, Weerts Construction, Winnebago

Dan Wenner, Director, Rural MN CEP, DetroitLakes