Lobby job at Nurse Anesthetists preceded first CEO post at College of Nurse Practitioners; merger with another group followed soon after Hebert Dave Hebert was one month into his first association CEO job—at the American College of Nurse Practitioners—when the group's board began considering a merger with rival American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Hebert, 55, ultimately was chosen to lead the combined group, the $11 million-revenue American Association of Nurse Practitioners, based in Austin, Texas, and Alexandria, Va. "It was certainly something I did not expect," he said in an interview at the CEO Update office. "But it turned out that it worked out well. My… Read More