The Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors—Nationwide Affiliation introduced right now that Chief Government Officer Cindy Sheridan, CAE, will retire on the finish of 2026.

Throughout a PHCC Board of Administrators assembly on Might 7, the board unanimously chosen PHCC Chief Working Officer and PHCC Instructional Basis Government Director Dan Quinonez as her successor. Quinonez will assume the CEO place on Nov. 1, with Sheridan serving in an advisory function throughout the transition.

“This succession plan ensures a clean transition and continuity for the group,” stated PHCC President Jason Pritchard. “We worth Cindy’s many contributions to the group as a robust and regular chief, in addition to a extremely revered skilled within the trade. We want her all one of the best within the subsequent part of her life.”

“On the identical time, we’re excited to raise Dan to the highest employees place at PHCC,” Pritchard added. “Over the previous three years, Dan has established strong relationships and earned belief all through the group. Together with his sturdy trade information and confirmed management abilities, he brings the expertise and imaginative and prescient wanted to seamlessly information PHCC into the longer term.”

Sheridan’s legacy as PHCC’s first feminine CEO has been formed by a dedication to collaboration and alignment throughout PHCC and the plumbing and HVACR career. Her many accomplishments embrace elevating PHCC’s profile throughout the trade; advancing workforce growth initiatives; creating important sources to assist contractors develop their companies; and streamlining PHCC’s inner processes.

A Licensed Affiliation Government with greater than 40 years of affiliation administration expertise, Sheridan grew to become PHCC CEO in January 2023. Earlier than that, she served because the PHCC Instructional Basis Chief Working Officer. She joined PHCC in 2000, overseeing membership and chapter relations.  

In her function with the Basis, Sheridan spearheaded a “Get the Lead Out Plumbing Consortium” lead-free schooling marketing campaign, which reached 4,000 trade professionals. She additionally launched the PHCC Academy® as an internet apprentice coaching program, which has grown right into a premier useful resource for trade schooling.  

“It has been a privilege and honor to be trusted to guide PHCC and work with our unimaginable members,” Sheridan stated. “I’m grateful to work with a group of inventive and proficient professionals who’re devoted to enhancing the plumbing and HVACR trade and our members’ companies.”

“Dan has the integrity and background to guide PHCC into the longer term,” she added. “I sit up for working intently with him throughout the transition.”  

Earlier than becoming a member of the PHCC Instructional Basis, Quinonez served as Government Director for each the Roof Coatings Producers Affiliation (RCMA) and the Skilled Electrical Equipment Reconditioning League (PEARL). He brings greater than 20 years of expertise as a nationwide spokesperson and affiliation chief throughout three industries — meals manufacturing, roofing, and the trades.

Since taking the helm on the PHCC Instructional Basis — whereas concurrently serving as Chief Working Officer of PHCC since November 2024 — Quinonez has delivered outcomes at each flip. Below his management, the Basis achieved a document yr for scholarship awards, solid elevated partnerships with the SkillsUSA Championship and WorldSkills competitors, and utterly reimagined its Nationwide HVAC Apprentice Contest. He spearheaded a serious enlargement of the PHCC Academy, launched a strategic public relations initiative that dramatically raised the Basis’s trade profile, grew the endowment by $3 million, and drove greater than $2 million in Academy gross sales — all inside simply three years.

“I sit up for entering into the PHCC CEO function because the group appears forward to its subsequent chapter,” Quinonez stated. “There are thrilling alternatives forward for PHCC. By working intently with our members, state and native chapters, and trade companions, we’ll proceed strengthening the affiliation and creating new avenues for development that profit each our members and the trade.”