“I offer my sincere gratitude to the Board of Directors for the opportunity to serve Blue Ridge Mountain EMC as the next general manager,” said Glidewell.īlue Ridge Mountain Electric Membership Corporation is a member-owned electric cooperative headquartered in Young Harris, Georgia, serving nearly 47,000 members in Cherokee and Clay Counties in Western North Carolina, and Towns, Union and Fannin Counties in Northeast Georgia. Glidewell will begin as general manager Monday, March 22. Glidewell also enjoys playing bluegrass music. He is a widower and the father of three grown children with his first grandchild on the way. He holds a bachelor of science in engineering from the University of Tennessee and a master of business administration degree from Union University. We’re in an industry that is essential and ever changing, but we can’t forget about service to one another.” This includes both employees and members. “An electric cooperative has to be flexible and nimble ensuring that we meet folks where their needs are. Employees and the members they serve are a co-op’s greatest asset,” said Incoming General Manager Glidewell. Electric cooperatives were built on the idea of service, and they function best when service is at the heart of each decision, action and policy. “I believe in service to others and electric cooperatives present unique opportunities to serve. Glidewell accepted a couple of positions within the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) working as manager of applied line services and then as transmission system manager. He oversaw the deployment of a state-of-the-art AMI, outage management and SCADA system as well as the construction of a fiber network to connect co-op facilities, substations and commercial accounts. He is responsible for planting and growing the private organization’s venture into the Chattanooga and Birmingham markets.ĭuring his tenure as vice president of operations and engineering at Southwest Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation, he managed daily operations of the 50,000 meter co-op including safety, engineering, operations, information technology, maintenance and member services. a multi-discipline architecture and engineering firm in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Glidewell currently serves as branch manager for Fisher & Arnold, Inc. On behalf of the Board, we want to especially thank Interim General Manager Erik Brinke for his leadership during the search for our new general manager.” Glidewell as a part of the BRMEMC family. “Our Board and legal counsel spent several weeks interviewing and vetting the candidates, and we feel we have an excellent choice as our general manager who will lead the Co-op successfully into the future. “Glidewells’s knowledge, experience, longevity and leadership within the electric cooperative caught the attention of our Board,” said Ray Cook, president of BRMEMC’s Board of Directors.

Glidewell brings more than twenty-three years of experience in the utility industry working primarily in electric cooperatives. The Board of Directors of Blue Ridge Mountain Electric Membership Corporation (BRMEMC) announced in Tuesday night’s Board Meeting that Allan Glidewell has been selected as general manager.

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