Joel N Myers is an American businessman who is the founder and executive chairman of AccuWeather, an American commercial weather service and media company.
10 Facts About Joel Myers
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Joel Myers founded AccuWeather in State College, Pennsylvania, in 1962.
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Joel Myers received the American Meteorological Society's 2018 Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Applied Meteorology, and the National Weather Association's 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award, in addition to numerous other accolades.
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Joel Myers is a trustee of the board of directors for the Committee for Economic Development, where he is on the education subcommittee, and he is a Fellow of the Nantucket Project.
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In 2007, Joel Myers appointed his younger brother Barry Lee Joel Myers, a business attorney, as AccuWeather's chief executive officer.
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The younger Joel Myers was nominated by President Donald Trump to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in October 2017.
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Dr Joel Myers resumed his position as CEO in 2019 following his brother's departure from the company.
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In June 2023, Joel Myers stepped down as CEO to became executive chairman of the company.
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Joel Myers faced criticism in 2005 when he supported the National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005, a bill introduced by US Senator Rick Santorum that would have prohibited the National Weather Service from publishing weather data to the public when private-sector entities, such as AccuWeather, perform the same function commercially.
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Joel Myers has been a long-time large donor to the Republican Party, its candidates, and to Santorum, a former home-state Senator.