Renny Vandewege is the Vice President of Weather Operations at DTN, where he is responsible for developing strategic direction for weather business serving the aviation, energy, offshore, shipping, transportation, and sports & safety markets as well as providing leadership to 200+ operational meteorologists across DTN weather forecast rooms globally. Renny joined DTN following the acquisition of Weather Decision Technologies in 2018, where he served as the senior vice president of sales since 2014.

Prior to joining the private weather industry, Renny served as the director of the Broadcast Meteorology Program at Mississippi State University, advising and training over 200 broadcast meteorologists in his time teaching in the program. Renny began his career in meteorology as a broadcast meteorologist at WTOK in Meridian, MS and KCTV in Kansas City, MO, most notably covering historic Hurricane Katrina as it made landfall in Mississippi. Renny holds a master’s degree from Mississippi State University.