Chris Jones
Trustee · Empire State Merit Apprenticeship Alliance INC
Trustee at Empire State Merit Apprenticeship Alliance INC. Listed as an officer, director, or key employee across 1 organization on the Form 990 record.
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Chris Jones serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Middle Tennessee Electric (MTE), a role he officially assumed on April 1, 2013. A 26-year veteran of MTE as of May 2025, he began his career at the cooperative as a Communications Coordinator and later served as Vice President of Communications and Member Services for eleven years.
Under his leadership, MTE has expanded broadband services through the acquisition of United Communications and merged with the Murfreesboro Electric Department, making MTE the second-largest electric cooperative in the country. Jones, who earned a degree in communications from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, was recognized as the 2022 Business Person of the Year by the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce and received the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association's J.C.
Brown CEO Communication Leadership Award in 2022. According to the IRS 990 record, his reported compensation was $1,030,300, and he serves 82 organizations.
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- 1988) · University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Communications1988
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