Staff Members

Rex Van Wert
President
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Rex Van Wert founded VWI in 1995 as a provider of meter reading services to utilities.  Since then the company has become a supplier of electric meters and operates two USCellular stores. 

Rex has been involved with the utility business since 1968. First Data Processing Manager at Grundy County REC and then as a Manufacturers Rep for 20 years.

Rex attended Iowa Tech where he studied computer programming.

He is married and has four children and nine grand-children.

Tim Van Wert
Operations Manager
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Tim has been reading meters, scheduling meter readers, processing meter data, and working with utilities since 1995. 

Tim is married and has three children.

Jeff Hawk
Meter Reading Manager
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Jeff has been reading meters, collecting meter data, and managing meter readers since 1995.

Jeff is married and has four children.

Bobby Ayers
Sales Associate
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Bobby is a graduate of Waldorf College with a Bachelors degree in business management and marketing. He worked at Grundy Center Municipal Utilities before joining Van Wert, Inc. in 2009.

Meter Readers

Arthur Kunzman
Jason Sly
Vern Rodie