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Ron Howard Product Line Director, Electric Grid Ron has always enjoyed discovering new paths and envisioning new ways and doing things. “My career is stamped with the creation of new things,” he says matter-of-factly from his home office in Oregon. “I’ve always have been interested in driving change for the better.” Ron Howard has done everything from operating an IBM mainframe computer, writing software code to travelling the world as global product manager of mobile computing solutions for utilities. But his interest in computers and programming hasn’t kept him permanently locked to his desk. His lifelong passion has always been keeping active and experiencing nature. Athletics have constantly played a part in his life, whether this has meant playing American football, basketball or simply running. “I’m into the outdoors,” he says. “It’s a passion of mine. I love to fly fish. Brown trout, steelhead...”
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His home state of Oregon, on the US west coast, offers plenty of opportunities for getting out and about, including fishing and hiking. Howard grew up in the university town of Eugene, Oregon. “I live in the greatest place on earth, it’s so beautiful. Oregon is a magical place,” he says. He and his wife love to travel, and even have a marlin fishing trip scheduled for Hawaii for this July. Upon inquiry on whether his wife likes marlin fishing, the answer is swift: “No, but she likes going to Hawaii.” They also regularly travel (in normal times) to New York to visit their son, who works in Manhattan.
