ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, has appointed Dan Grady, N2SRK, of Aurora, Colorado, as the new Rocky Mountain Division Vice Director.

Grady will succeed Robert Wareham, N0ESQ, who has stepped down from that post to accept appointment as Colorado Section Manager (SM), taking the reins from SM Jack Ciaccia, WM0G, who resigned effective on June 1 to relocate.

Grady credited Ryan and the Division's Section Managers for keeping the Division healthy and strong.

A native of southern New Jersey, Grady was licensed in 1992 after a middle-school technology teacher inspired his curiosity about ham radio.

He served in the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) and Office of Emergency Management communication support teams in southern New Jersey and in the Philadelphia areas in the 1990s.

After relocating to Colorado in 2014, he helped to found and now serves as president of the Parker Radio Association - a 150-member ARRL-affiliated club.

Grady enjoys chasing DX on HF and contesting, as well as digital modes. He is a vice president and executive team member for a sheet metal manufacturing, fabrication, and wholesale company headquartered in Denver and is a state chapter board member for a national sheet metal contractor association.

Grady holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Phoenix and pursued religious studies at Seton Hall University