Cooper appoints Hargrove as Northeast regional director

Cooper has appointed Kelly Hargrove as its Northeast regional director. Hargrove, a compression industry veteran with more than 40 years of experience, will lead Cooper’s northeast sales and service region and office in its Huntington, West Virginia service and shop center.

Hargrove began his career with El Paso/Kinder Morgan in 1979 as a college summer intern. He spent several years working as an operator and then a senior mechanic before moving into leadership and management roles. Most recently, Kelly served as a mechanical maintenance manager for Kinder Morgan in Mercer, Pennsylvania, where he managed all elements of equipment maintenance and gas pipeline operations.