Mark K. Knoy
President and CEO

Mark K. Knoy was named President and Chief Executive Officer of ACL in August 2011.

Prior to joining the company, he was Vice President of American Electric Power's Fuel, Emissions and Logistics Group and President of AEP River Operations, having joined AEP with its 2001 purchase of MEMCO Barge Line. At MEMCO, Knoy served as Senior Vice President, Boat Operations from 1999 to 2001; Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing from 1996 to 1999; Vice President, Transportation and Logistics from 1995 to 1996; and Southern Regional Sales Manager from 1994 to 1996. From 1984 to 1994, he was owner/operator of The Mark Twain Towing Company and Delmar Marine, Inc., Pekin, Illinois. Knoy began his career in 1973 working aboard towboats on the inland waterways as a deck hand and then as a captain.

He attended Lindenwood University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Knoy serves as: a director of the Corps of Engineer's Inland Waterways Users Board, a Board of Trustees' member for both the Coast Guard Foundation and The Seamen's Church Institute and their Center for Maritime Education and Ministry on the River, Vice Chairman of National Waterways Foundation, board member for the H.T. Pott Inland Waterways Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis, and Treasurer of the Marine Transportation Council. He is a past Chairman of both the Waterways Council, Inc. and the Midwest Region of the American Waterways Operators.