Chuck Surack Steps Down as Sweetwater CEO

Chuck Surack is stepping down from his role as CEO of Sweetwater, the company he founded in 1979, headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He will transition to the role of chairman of the Sweetwater board. The news comes after Providence Equity Partners, an investment firm in Providence, Rhode Island, became majority owner of Sweetwater earlier this summer. According to Wane.com, the changes were effective as of July 15. The new CEO is John Hopkins, Sweetwater’s fomer vice president and COO.

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