Advisory Council

Wes Ehrecke earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication from Iowa State University and has worked in association management for 28 years.

He has worked for the Iowa Bankers Association, the Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives, and the Minnesota Bankers Association. He is currently president of the Iowa Gaming Association.

Ehrecke is the immediate past president of the Iowa Society of Association Executives, was recently a director of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), and has served on local and state leadership committees for the ASAE.

He has provided leadership for 4-H foundations, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Business Economic Education Foundation, the Graduate School of Banking at Madison, the United Way, high school boosters, and church councils.

Ehrecke was named a fellow by the American Society of Association Executives and received the group’s Certified Association Executive designation. He was the first winner of the Iowa Society of Association Executives Professional Excellence Award and is a two-time recipient of the society’s Presidential Plaque Award for Management Achievement.

He earned the Iowa 4-H Foundation’s Meritorious Award and the Des Moines Register’s “Up and Comer” award.