Outgoing Chair Velma Hart endeavored to add diversity to broaden ASAE agenda; shares parting advice with incoming leader. The new chair of ASAE, Karen L. Hackett, CEO of the Rosemont, Ill.-based American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, is grateful that the beginning of her tenure is not marked with a crisis. It was a luxury not afforded to the outgoing chair Velma Hart, CFO of AMVETS, or to J. Clarke Price, CEO of the Ohio Association of CPAs, whose tenures coincided with the darkest days of the recession. Hackett said the respite allows her to concentrate more fully on the question of “how do we do a better job at serving the members?” ASAE is about “connections,”… Read More