Chief Executive Officer
Scott Newberry joined FKEC in 1990 as Planning, Rate, and Budget Analyst and was promoted in 1996 to Chief Financial Officer. As CFO, he oversaw all of the financial, accounting, billing, and information system functions of the cooperative. In 2002, he was promoted to Assistant General Manager and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer on January 1, 2006.
Newberry is an active member of the Upper Keys community and is a two-time past president of the Rotary Club of Key Largo, and has served on the boards of both the Key Largo and Islamorada Chambers of Commerce.
In 1994, Newberry completed the three-year national electrical course for apprentice linemen to further his education in cooperative operations. He is a graduate of Leadership Monroe County Class XI and completed the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s Management Internship Program in 2005.
Newberry graduated from Arkansas State University with a degree in Agriculture Business and Economics in 1986 and earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Regis University in 2006.
In 1988, he began his career in the electricity industry when he joined the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) in Washington, D.C. With the REA, he worked first as a Commercial Loan Specialist and was later promoted to Power Requirements Officer before moving to the Florida Keys to join FKEC in 1990.