DALLAS, TX--(Marketwired - Mar 8, 2016) - The Chron Organization, Inc. (
Over the past two years, Mr. McKinnon has served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors of Surna, Inc., a provider of climate control and environmental systems. Prior to Surna, he served as President of a private oil & gas technology company.
Mr. McKinnon has more than thirty years of experience which includes advisory and operation knowledge across a broad spectrum of industry sectors, including oil and gas, technology, and communications. He has served in C-level positions in both private and public sectors, including Chairman and CEO of an American Stock Exchange traded company, Vice President of a $12 billion market cap NASDAQ-traded company for which the management team raised over $2.2 billion, CFO of several publicly held US, Canadian and Australian companies, and CEO/CFO of various other private enterprises. As an entrepreneur, Mr. McKinnon has been involved in organizations ranging from start-up companies using venture capital funding to publicly traded, institutional investor-backed companies.
Mr. McKinnon attended Texas Christian University. He worked for nine years as a CPA in the SEC and the oil and gas practice section of Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). Additionally, he has extensive merger & acquisition and turnaround experience.
Byron Young, Chairman of The Chron Organization, stated, "Doug gets the kind of culture that we are trying to create and his depth of experience is second to none. We are looking forward to have him on our management team."
Alex Rodriguez, President of Chron, said, "Our goal is to become a fully reporting company as soon as possible. The addition of McKinnon to our management team is a major step in that direction. We are excited to be working alongside with him."
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