Mr. Smith has been a CEC member since 2013 and currently serves as board vice president. He has bachelor's degrees in Chemistry and Business from California University of Pennsylvania. He recently earned a Board Leadership Certificate from NRECA and reached Gold Credentials at the end of Oct. 2022. 

He is retired from MRC Global (an industrial equipment supplier) where he was the Global Director for the quality department. 

Mr. Smith moved to the area from Charleston, West Virginia in 2013 to be near his daughter, Heather, and her husband, Bob Hensel, and their one grandchild, Peyton.