The ECHL introduced on Wednesday that Adirondack Thunder President Jeff Mead has been named as Chairman of the League’s Board of Governors.
Mead was named as President of the Thunder on July 1, 2017, including on to his place as Common Supervisor of Harding Mazotti Area. In 2023-24, he acquired the Blake Cullen Award as ECHL Govt of the Yr.
A Glens Falls native, Mead returned to the realm in 2015 as he took over the then named Glens Falls Civic Middle as Common Supervisor. Mead additionally serves on the Downtown Enterprise Enchancment District because the group’s treasurer and is a member of the Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce Board of Administrators.
Previous to becoming a member of the Civic Middle, Mead had served because the Common Supervisor of three leisure complexes, most lately the Blue Sky Sports activities Middle in Allen, Texas from 2012-15. Mead additionally served as the final supervisor of the Dr. Pepper StarCenters, the official observe rink of the Dallas Stars, for 3 years from 2009-12. From 1999-2009, Mead labored for Polar Ice Leisure the working firm of the Dr. Pepper StarCenters, the place he served because the Common Supervisor and Regional Director of Operations. With Polar, Mead labored at a number of areas, together with Grapevine, Texas, the place he operated the power, negotiated naming rights and helped to carry the Stars to the complicated.
Mead is a 1997 graduate of the State College of New York at Potsdam, the place he lettered in varsity hockey for 4 seasons. Mead and the Bears gained the 1996 SUNYAC Championship and reached the NCAA Division III quarterfinals in 1996. Previous to taking part in collegiate hockey, Mead gained two New York State Excessive College Hockey State Titles with Glens Falls Excessive College.
