Kevin Hancock
President & CEO, Hancock Lumber
Kevin Hancock is the President of Hancock Lumber Company. Established in 1848, Hancock Lumber is a six generation family business headquartered in Casco, Maine. Hancock Lumber operates 10 retail stores and three sawmills that are led by 425 employees. The Hancock organization also owns and manages 12,000 acres of timberland in Cumberland and Oxford counties.
Hancock Lumber was recognized in 2012 as the Maine International Trade Center ‘Exporter of the Year’. The company is also a past recipient of the Maine Family Business of the Year Award as well as the Governor’s Award for Business Excellence. Most recently Kevin was recognized at Timber Processing Magazine’s ‘Man of the Year’ for the Industry in 2014.
Kevin is a past chairman of the Northeast Retail Lumber Dealers Association, the National Lumber Dealers Association and the Bridgton Academy Board of Trustees. Kevin also spent 15 years coaching middle school basketball for the Lake Region School District.
Kevin is a graduate of Lake Region High School and Bowdoin College and is a frequent visitor to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota where he is involved in community service activity there. Kevin has created a non-profit organization called “The Seventh Power” to support initiatives on the reservation and is currently writing a book titled ‘Not For Sale’ about the history and modern day life of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Statistically today Pine Ridge is the poorest place in America.
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