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Ryan Wannemacher is Hope Utilities’ Chief Financial Officer. He oversees Accounting, Treasury, Financial Planning, Budgeting, Tax, and Risk Management. Ryan is a respected finance professional with over twenty years of utility finance experience. His professional experience includes serving as Head of FP&A and as CFO for a large utility, as CFO for a vegetation management company serving the utility and railroad industries, and as a utility investment banker at a large global financial institution. He has successfully structured and executed over $25 billion in financings in his career and has managed all aspects of utility finance. 

Ryan earned a B.B.A. in Financial Consulting from Southern Methodist University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Ryan and his family reside in Morgantown, WV, where he enjoys volunteering for his two sons’ school sports teams.