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DAIRYLAND POWER COOPERATIVE
DAIRYLAND POWER COOPERATIVE
WI · EIN 390233059
114
Executives Disclosed
$485.8M
Annual Revenue
$1567.4M
Total Assets
3.7:1
Internal Pay Ratio
DAIRYLAND POWER COOPERATIVE has 114 executives with disclosed compensation. The highest-paid executive, Brent Ridge (President and Chief Executive Officer), received peak total compensation of $1,178,042.
Top Executive Compensation Over Time
Executive Compensation
| Name | Title | Peak Comp. | Latest Comp. | Years | vs. Household |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brent Ridge | President and Chief Executive Officer | $1.2M | $1.2M | 2020–2024 | 15.7x |
| Barbara A Nick | President and CEO (Retired 7/17/2020) | $1.0M | $907K | 2016–2020 | 13.4x |
| Phillip M Moilien | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Retired 07/14/23) | $796K | $603K | 2017–2023 | 10.6x |
| John B Young | Vice President and Chief Risk Officer | $573K | $577K | 2023–2024 | 7.6x |
| Benjamin L Porath | Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer | $533K | $537K | 2016–2024 | 7.1x |
| Amanda Hoefling | Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer | $520K | $523K | 2019–2024 | 6.9x |
| John P Carr | Vice President Strategic Growth (retired Q1 2025) | $483K | $491K | 2016–2024 | 6.4x |
| William L Berg | Former President and CEO | $435K | $145K | 2016–2024 | 5.8x |
| Robert M Palmberg | Vice President External & Member Relations (Term 09/27/21) | $435K | $0 | 2016–2022 | 5.8x |
| April Wehling | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | $435K | $438K | 2019–2024 | 5.8x |
| Joyce Peppin | Executive Vice President and Deputy General Counsel | $433K | $436K | 2022–2024 | 5.8x |
| John Young | Vice President & Chief Risk Officer | $433K | $437K | 2019–2022 | 5.8x |
| Lane Peters | Manager Genoa Site (Term 8/5/21) | $429K | $431K | 2016–2021 | 5.7x |
| Phillip Moilien | Vice President and CFO | $406K | $410K | 2016–2016 | 5.4x |
| Jeremy Browning | Vice President Generation | $405K | $411K | 2023–2024 | 5.4x |
| Brad Smalldridge | Vice President, Transmission Services and Business Development (Term 07/10/23) | $389K | $257K | 2021–2023 | 5.2x |
| Kevin Nordt | Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer | $367K | $370K | 2024–2024 | 4.9x |
| Nathaniel Melby | Vice President and Chief Information Officer | $357K | $360K | 2023–2024 | 4.8x |
| Mary L Lund | Executive Vice President - HR (retired 03/02/18) | $354K | $235K | 2016–2018 | 4.7x |
| Brian D Rude | Vice President Government & Community Relations | $348K | $318K | 2016–2020 | 4.6x |
| Nathaniel J Melby | Vice President & Chief Information Officer | $341K | $345K | 2017–2022 | 4.6x |
| Jason Herbert | Vice President External Affairs | $328K | $330K | 2024–2024 | 4.4x |
| Greg Flege | Vice President Transmission | $327K | $329K | 2024–2024 | 4.4x |
| Jeffrey Springer | Mgr., Innovation & Efficient Electrification | $321K | $324K | 2022–2022 | 4.3x |
| Andy Black | Dir Organizational Effectiveness | $317K | $321K | 2024–2024 | 4.2x |
| Ron Franz | Sr. Dir Resource and Energy Planning | $314K | $318K | 2024–2024 | 4.2x |
| David J Becker | Director Engineering Services | $312K | $317K | 2016–2020 | 4.2x |
| Brian Treadway | Director of Transmission Services | $311K | $305K | 2016–2023 | 4.1x |
| Matt Lewis | Dir Business Development and PMO | $308K | $311K | 2023–2024 | 4.1x |
| Keith Stubbendick | Controller | $303K | $305K | 2016–2016 | 4x |
| Kathleen Galioto | Vice President and Deputy General Counsel | $298K | $300K | 2022–2024 | 4x |
| Elizabeth Ressie | Sr. Dir Safety and Human Resources | $295K | $298K | 2023–2024 | 3.9x |
| Ken Schlimgen | Mgr Mkt Opr Trading & Wholesale Power (retired Q1 2025) | $294K | $299K | 2021–2024 | 3.9x |
| Amy Carstens | Director of Transmission Services | $247K | $249K | 2019–2021 | 3.3x |
| Nicole Metzler | Controller | $244K | $232K | 2021–2023 | 3.3x |
| Kenneth L Schlimgen | Manager Market Opr, Trading & Wholesale Power | $242K | $247K | 2016–2020 | 3.2x |
| Donald R Huff | Director Environmental Affairs | $225K | $228K | 2017–2017 | 3x |
| Bryan Reidt | Lead Mechanic, Alma Fuels (Term 9/30/21) | $222K | $223K | 2021–2021 | 3x |
| Don Huff | Director, Environmental Affairs (Term 9/30/21) | $210K | $211K | 2021–2021 | 2.8x |
| Darin Bellile | Manager, Transmission Maintenance | $190K | $193K | 2018–2018 | 2.5x |
| William Berg | Former President and CEO | $120K | $0 | 2022–2022 | 1.6x |
| Mary Lund | Former Exec VP - Human Resources | $101K | $101K | 2019–2019 | 1.4x |
| Jenny Scharmer | Current Director | $65K | $0 | 2016–2024 | 0.9x |
| Roger Tjarks | Board Member (Jan-Jun) | $59K | $0 | 2016–2020 | 0.8x |
| Joe Mattingley | Current Director | $52K | $0 | 2016–2024 | 0.7x |
| Ed Gullickson | Current Director | $49K | $0 | 2016–2024 | 0.7x |
| Jim Hager | Current Director | $48K | $0 | 2018–2024 | 0.6x |
| Barry Radloff | Current Director | $48K | $0 | 2016–2024 | 0.6x |
| Sandra Davidson | Current Director | $47K | $0 | 2016–2024 | 0.6x |
| Michael Baker | Current Director | $47K | $0 | 2016–2024 | 0.6x |
| Jeffrey Bradley | Current Director | $44K | $0 | 2023–2024 | 0.6x |
| Karen Newbury | Current Director | $43K | $0 | 2017–2024 | 0.6x |
| Dennis Frame | Current Director | $42K | $0 | 2023–2024 | 0.6x |
| Chuck Zenner | Current Director | $40K | $0 | 2016–2024 | 0.5x |
| John Petska | Current Director | $40K | $0 | 2016–2024 | 0.5x |
| Mark Kingland | Current Director | $40K | $0 | 2020–2024 | 0.5x |
| Jeff Monson | Current Director | $39K | $0 | 2016–2024 | 0.5x |
| Tom Zwiefelhofer | Current Director | $35K | $0 | 2017–2024 | 0.5x |
| Brian Berg | Current Director | $35K | $0 | 2023–2024 | 0.5x |
| Jerry Huber | Current Director | $35K | $0 | 2016–2024 | 0.5x |
| Bill Trygstad | Current Director | $34K | $0 | 2023–2024 | 0.5x |
| Clarence Boettcher | Current Director | $34K | $0 | 2016–2024 | 0.5x |
| Robert Hess | Current Director | $33K | $0 | 2016–2024 | 0.4x |
| Ed Hass | Current Director Jan-June | $32K | $0 | 2017–2023 | 0.4x |
| Arthur Friedrich | Current Director | $32K | $0 | 2019–2024 | 0.4x |
| Daniel Korn | Current Director | $29K | $0 | 2016–2024 | 0.4x |
| Jane Reich | Current Director | $29K | $0 | 2016–2024 | 0.4x |
| Neil Plourde | Current Director | $29K | $0 | 2020–2024 | 0.4x |
| Jeffery Bradley | Board Member | $26K | $0 | 2021–2022 | 0.4x |
| Greg Sacia | Board Member (Jan-Jun) | $26K | $0 | 2016–2019 | 0.3x |
| Burton Magnuson | Board Member (January-March) | $25K | $0 | 2016–2022 | 0.3x |
| David Anderson | Board Member | $25K | $0 | 2019–2022 | 0.3x |
| Dave Orf | Board Member (Jan-Jun) | $23K | $0 | 2017–2020 | 0.3x |
| Ken Wohlers | Board Member (Feb-Mar) | $23K | $0 | 2017–2021 | 0.3x |
| Larry Lamborn | Board Member | $23K | $0 | 2016–2021 | 0.3x |
| William Trygstad | Board Member (April-December) | $22K | $0 | 2022–2022 | 0.3x |
| Eugene Miller | Board Member (Jan - Jun) | $20K | $0 | 2016–2018 | 0.3x |
| Dean L Stokke | Current Director | $20K | $0 | 2024–2024 | 0.3x |
| Charles Bena | Board Member (Jan - Jun) | $19K | $0 | 2016–2018 | 0.3x |
| Francis Gwinn | Board Member (Jan - Jun) | $19K | $0 | 2016–2018 | 0.3x |
| Francis Klatt | Board Member (Jan - Jun) | $19K | $0 | 2016–2017 | 0.2x |
| Barb Heffernan | Board Member (Jan - Jun) | $16K | $0 | 2016–2017 | 0.2x |
| David Stute | Board Member (Jan - Jul) | $15K | $0 | 2016–2016 | 0.2x |
| Dean Tesch | Board Member (Jan, May) | $15K | $0 | 2016–2019 | 0.2x |
| Daniel Fischer | Board Member (Jan - May) | $15K | $0 | 2016–2017 | 0.2x |
| Dean Fisher | Board Member | $15K | $0 | 2016–2016 | 0.2x |
| Scott Warwick | Current Director Jan-June | $15K | $0 | 2022–2023 | 0.2x |
| Larry Hall | Current Director | $14K | $0 | 2023–2024 | 0.2x |
| Kendal Nichols | Board Member (Jan - Jun) | $14K | $0 | 2016–2017 | 0.2x |
| David L Anderson | Current Director Jan-June | $10K | $0 | 2023–2023 | 0.1x |
| Ronald Churchill | Board Member (Jan - Jun) | $9K | $0 | 2016–2017 | 0.1x |
| Chris Stadel | Board Member (Jan - Jun) | $9K | $0 | 2016–2016 | 0.1x |
| Marlyn Bottolfson | Board Member (Jan - Jun) | $8K | $0 | 2016–2016 | 0.1x |
| Judy Murphy | Board Member (Jan - Sept) | $8K | $0 | 2016–2016 | 0.1x |
| Dan Tindell | Current Director | $4K | $0 | 2018–2024 | 0.1x |
| Alan Wilkie | Alternate Board Member (June) | $2K | $0 | 2020–2020 | 0x |
| Tracy L Lauritzen | Current Director | $2K | $0 | 2024–2024 | 0x |
| Bernadine Hornby | Current Director | $2K | $0 | 2024–2024 | 0x |
| Bret Jones | Delegated Board Member (Jun & Sept) | $2K | $0 | 2016–2016 | 0x |
| Derrick Oberle | Alternate Board Member (March) | $2K | $0 | 2018–2018 | 0x |
| Ann L Young | Current Director - Alternate | $2K | $0 | 2023–2023 | 0x |
| Charles Frana | Delegated Board Member (Jul) | $1K | $0 | 2016–2016 | 0x |
| Marcus Saegrove | Delegated Board Member (Aug) | $1K | $0 | 2016–2016 | 0x |
| Chris Curran | Board Member (Sept) | $1K | $0 | 2017–2021 | 0x |
| Brian Hallgren | Alternate Board Member (Nov) | $1K | $0 | 2019–2019 | 0x |
| Randy Kunsch | Alternate Board Member (June) | $1K | $0 | 2019–2019 | 0x |
| Thomas Schwartz | Current Director - Alternate | $894 | $0 | 2023–2023 | 0x |
| Joseph Pacovsky | Alternate Board Member (September) | $886 | $0 | 2019–2019 | 0x |
| James Van Wychen | Alternate Board Member (June) | $766 | $0 | 2017–2018 | 0x |
| Jerry Keleher | Board of Director (September) | $748 | $0 | 2022–2022 | 0x |
| Ed Hartung | Delegated Board Member (Sept) | $722 | $0 | 2016–2016 | 0x |
| Roger Weness | Alternate Board Member (Sept) | $714 | $0 | 2017–2017 | 0x |
| Donald Petersen | Alternate Board Member (November) | $600 | $0 | 2020–2020 | 0x |
| David Ernst | Alternate Board Member (Nov) | $596 | $0 | 2017–2017 | 0x |
Annual Summary
| Year | Executives | Avg. Comp. | Highest Comp. | Total Payroll |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 49 | $346K | $704K | $4.5M |
| 2017 | 50 | $317K | $786K | $4.4M |
| 2018 | 44 | $349K | $888K | $4.5M |
| 2019 | 47 | $340K | $1.0M | $5.4M |
| 2020 | 44 | $395K | $907K | $6.3M |
| 2021 | 45 | $370K | $944K | $6.7M |
| 2022 | 45 | $426K | $991K | $6.4M |
| 2023 | 49 | $401K | $1.1M | $6.8M |
| 2024 | 48 | $420K | $1.2M | $8.0M |
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