Marshall Cherry

Chief Operating Officer
Roanoke Electric Cooperative

Marshall Cherry is a native of rural northeastern North Carolina. He has served the members of Roanoke Electric Cooperative for 22 years and currently serves as the organization’s Chief Operating Officer. He received a BS in Business Administration from Livingstone College, Salisbury, North Carolina. He also a graduate of the NC Rural Economic Development Center’s Leadership Institute and has received other training in Economic Development at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Institute of Government. He is currently a board member of The Support Center, a statewide Community Development Financial Institution, and chairs their small business lending committee. He has also received an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army Reserves after eight years of service. He has presented best-in-class activities in customer service, government relations, and energy efficiency initiatives, customer engagement at many national and state associations’ meetings. In his spare time he enjoys reading/listening to Motivational Books and numerous sporting activities.