Kevin D. Mowbray

Kevin Mowbray was elected president and chief executive officer in 2016 having served as executive vice president and chief operating officer since 2013. He previously was publisher of Lee's largest newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch since 2006.

Mowbray began his career with Lee in 1986 as an advertising sales representative in his hometown of Kewanee, Ill. He advanced to sales positions in Helena, Butte and Billings, Montana, before moving to Chicago as Lee's national sales manager for corporate sales and marketing. In 1995, he joined the Lincoln Journal Star as advertising manager, where he served three years before becoming general manager at the Missoulian in Missoula, Montana, in 1998. In 2000, he advanced to publisher of The Bismarck Tribune in Bismarck, North Dakota, where he guided the newspaper to the 2001 Lee President's Award for Enterprise of the Year. In 2002, he was appointed vice president for sales and marketing, and in 2004 he became a vice president for publishing, with responsibility for markets in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina, while also serving as publisher of The Times of Northwest Indiana. In 2005, Suburban Newspapers of America honored The Times as national Newspaper of the Year. While in St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch received Lee's highest honor, Enterprise of the Year, in 2012 for strong financial performance and leadership in developing company-wide sales and audience initiatives. Also during his time in St. Louis, as a Lee vice president of publishing he also had additional responsibility for 13 other markets in Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, New York, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Utah.