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Bob Currey is a 30-year veteran of the telecommunications industry and currently serves as President and CEO of Consolidated Communications, Inc. and Director. Previously he served as Vice Chairman of RCN Corporation, Chief Executive Officer of 21st Century Telecom Group, and as Group President, Telecommunications Services and a Director of McLeodUSA. Currey served as President of Consolidated Communications from 1990 until 1997 and rejoined the company as President and CEO in 2002.
Prior to joining Consolidated in 1990, Currey held the position of Senior Vice President-Operations and Engineering for Citizen’s Utilities Company and had previously been Executive Vice President of US Sprint, and Senior Vice President-Operations for United Telecommunications, Inc.
Currey served as Chairman of the Illinois Coalition, a non-profit organization of business, government, academic, and labor leaders that promotes technology-based economic development in Illinois. He has also served as Chairman of the Board of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce. Currey is currently a director of Management Network Group, Inc., Telution Inc., the United States Telecom Association and the Illinois Business RoundTable.
Currey received his bachelor’s degree from Michigan Technological University and a MBA from Eastern Michigan University. | 