Mead was named president of the Thunder on July 1, 2017, adding to his position as general manager of Harding Mazotti Arena. In 2023-2024, he received the Blake Cullen Award as ECHL Executive of the Year.
A Glens Falls native, Mead returned to the area in 2015 when he took over the then-Glens Falls Civic Center as general manager. Mead also serves on the Downtown Business Improvement District as the organization’s treasurer and serves on the board of directors of the Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Before joining the Civic Center, Mead served as general manager of three entertainment complexes from 2012 to 2015, most recently the Blue Sky Sports Center in Allen, Texas. Mead also served as general manager of the Dr. for three years from 2009 to 2012. Pepper StarCenters, the official practice range of the Dallas Stars. From 1999-2009, Mead worked for Polar Ice Entertainment, the operating company of the Dr. Pepper StarCenters, where he served as General Manager and Regional Director of Operations. At Polar, Mead worked in several locations, including Grapevine, Texas, where he operated the facility, negotiated naming rights and helped bring the Stars to the complex.
Mead is a 1997 graduate of the State University of New York at Potsdam, where he played four seasons of varsity hockey. Mead and the Bears won the 1996 SUNYAC Championship and reached the NCAA Division III quarterfinals in 1996. Before playing collegiate hockey, Mead won two New York State High School Hockey State titles with Glens Falls High School.
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