NAB signs Smith until 2023
CEO of National Association of Broadcasters gets another contract extension The National Association of Broadcasters announced Sept. 12 that the group has extended the contract of CEO Gordon Smith to March 31, 2023. Smith joined NAB in November 2009. NAB previously extended Smith's contract in 2012 and 2014. The CEO is a former two-term Republican U.S. senator from Oregon who previously led the family-owned Smith Frozen Foods.
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After corporate leaders exit, associations roll up their sleeves
Dissolution of presidential business councils highlights many associations' role as conduits between White House, business community Howard
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Opera is total package for Golden
CEO is on Wagner Society board of directors Mark Golden was a college drama major when he signed up for a class about opera, thinking it would be easy. (It wasn't.) But the class sparked an interest in opera that continued long after he dropped acting for a career in association management.
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After two-year interval, Financial Services Forum names CEO
HSBC North America executive Kevin Fromer to head financial industry CEO group, which has not had official leader since 2015 Fromer Kevin Fromer has been named president and CEO of the $6 million-revenue Financial Services Forum, giving the group its first official leader since Rob Nichols left in 2015 to head the American Bankers Association
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Fanning named CEO of Aerospace Industries Association
Former secretary of the Army to lead $18M-revenue group; succeeds retired three-star general and industry executive Dave Melcher Fanning The former head of the U.S. Army has been chosen to lead the Aerospace Industries Association after the group's current CEO steps down at the end of the year.
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