Ronald G. Stovash

Ronald G. Stovash began his career as an hourly coal miner in 1967 with the Pittsburgh Coal Division of Consolidation Coal Company while an engineering student at the University of Pittsburgh. After graduation from the University of Pittsburgh, Stovash joined Consol as a production engineer at the Renton Mine and later was appointed a section foreman and then project engineer. From 1974 to 1977, he was shift foreman, longwall coordinator and general assistant mine foreman. In 1977, Stovash was appointed superintendent of the Laurel Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, general superintendent of the Shoemaker Mine in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1979, and technical assistant to the vice president of the Moundsville operations in 1983. He served as vice president of several other locations. In 1999, Stovash was elected vice president of marketing services that included responsibility for CONSOL's river and terminal operations. In 2003, he was hired as vice president of sales and marketing services with domestic and international sales responsibilities, and in 2004, senior vice president of central Appalachia operations and marketing that included responsibility for CONSOL's joint venture mining operation in Australia in 2006, he was appointed senior vice president of Coal Operations and retired from CONSOL after nearly 40 years of service. Stovash served as vice chairman of the Electrical Engineering Visiting Committee at University of Pittsburgh and a member of the Mining Engineering Visiting Committee at West Virginia University. He is currently Trustee Emeritus of the West Virginia Public Theatre, a member of the Board of Monongalia Health System and General Hospital and a member of the Executive Committee and chair of the Quality and Clinical Oversight Committee, and a past member of the Board of Greater Morgantown Charitable Trust. In 2009, he was elected a Distinguished Alumnus of the School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.