Raymond Plank

Founder and Chairman of the Board

RAYMOND PLANK is chairman of the board, having held that position since 1979. He was chief executive officer from 1966 until May 2002 and president from 1954 to 1979. He founded the company in 1954 and is a member of its executive committee.

Mr. Plank has been consistently active in civic, educational and business affairs. He founded the Fund for Teachers, which provides summer travel and enrichment grants to kindergarten through 12th grade teachers. He chairs the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming and is on the board of trustees of the Washington, D.C.-based Committee for Economic Development. He served as chairman of the Wyoming Futures Project and the Minneapolis Heart Institute, and co-chairman of Minnesota Wellspring. He also has been a member of the Denver Art Museum board of trustees.

He has been a trustee of Carleton College where Apache established the Raymond Plank Chair in Incentive Economics, and he is past chairman of the University of Minnesota Foundation.

Mr. Plank graduated from Yale University in 1944 with a bachelor of arts degree. During World War II, he served with the U.S. Army Air Corps as a bomber pilot in the South Pacific Theater of Operations.

Committee
Executive Committee