Milk and manufacturers come together to throw reception Connie Tipton, CEO of the International Dairy Foods Association, and Jay Timmons, CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, took advantage of concurrent fly-ins. On June 19, their groups came together at a congressional reception on the roof terrace of 101 Constitution Ave. NW, with its view of the U.S. Capitol. Tipton was elected in January to the board of directors of NAM's Council of Manufacturing Associations. It was at the Council's Winter Leadership Conference that she heard NAM announce dates for its Manufacturing Summit and realized they matched IDFA's fly-in. "So I went up to Jay and said, ‘Maybe we… Read More