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Rick Navarre is President and Chief Commercial Officer for Peabody Energy. He has executive responsibility for Peabody's global sales and trading; business development; strategic planning generation and Btu Conversion initiatives; resource development opportunities; international growth initiatives including China; business performance; and investor relations and corporate communications. He also will remain Chief Financial Officer until a successor is named.
With 25 years of financial and business experience Rick has served as Chief Financial Officer since 1999. He joined the company in 1993 and has held a series of financial and commercial positions with the company including executive responsibility for departments as diverse as Sales Marketing Trading and Transportation; Legal; Information Technology; Materials Management and Post-Mining Reclamation.
Rick is a member of the Hall of Fame of the College of Business at Southern Illinois University Carbondale; a member of the Board of Advisors of the College of Business and Administration and the School of Accountancy of Southern Illinois University Carbondale; a member of the International Business Advisory Board of the University of Missouri - St. Louis; a Director of the Missouri Historical Society; a Director of the United Way of Greater St. Louis; a member of Financial Executives International and the Civic Entrepreneurs Organization; and a former chairman of the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association. | 