{"id":20916,"date":"2017-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smps.org\/announcing-our-2017-18-volunteer-leaders\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T15:56:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T15:56:57","slug":"announcing-our-2017-18-volunteer-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smps.org\/2017\/05\/25\/announcing-our-2017-18-volunteer-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Our 2017-18 Volunteer Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Society for Marketing Professionals Services (SMPS) is grateful for the enthusiastic response to our invitation for members to serve in volunteer leadership roles. The Nominations and Elections Committee thoroughly reviewed all the qualified applications and is pleased to present the slate of officers, directors, and trustees for the forthcoming fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>In accordance with the SMPS bylaws, the following candidates have been appointed by the Nominations and Elections Committee to fill three open positions on the 2017\u201318 SMPS board of directors:<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 President-Elect:<\/strong> <strong>Chris Rickman, FSMPS, CPSM, <\/strong>Principal\/Business Manager, ZFI Engineering Co., Oklahoma City, OK (Term: September 1, 2017, to August 31, 2018)<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Stiles, FSMPS, CPSM,<\/strong> Transportation Business Development Manager, Wantman Group, Inc., Ocoee, FL (Term: September 1, 2017, to August 31, 2019)<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At-Large Director: Stacy Stout, FSMPS, CPSM,<\/strong> Principal, BRANDiac Strategies, Centennial, CO (Term: September 1, 2017, to August 31, 2019)<\/p>\n<p>Four current directors will continue serving on the SMPS board in 2017\u201318 in the following positions:<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 President: Nancy J. Usrey, FSMPS, CPSM, <\/strong>Associate Vice President, HNTB Corporation, Plano, TX (Term: September 1, 2017, to August 31, 2018)<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Past President: Craig S. Galati, AIA, FSMPS, CPSM,<\/strong> President, LGA, Las Vegas, NV (Term: September 1, 2017, to August 31, 2018)<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At-Large Director: Scott, D. Butcher, FSMPS, CPSM, <\/strong>Vice President, JDB Engineering, Inc., York, PA (Term: September 1, 2016, to August 31, 2018)<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At-Large Director: Elizabeth M. Harris, CPSM,<\/strong> Vice President, United Consulting, Norcross, GA (Term: September 1, 2016, to August 31, 2018)<\/p>\n<p>The Nominations and Elections Committee also recommended and the SMPS board approved the re-election of the following SMPS Foundation member trustees in 2017\u201318:<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Holly Bolton, FSMPS, CPSM,<\/strong> Owner, 3chord Marketing, Indianapolis, IN (Term: September 1, 2017, to August 31, 2019)<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Amy Collins, CPSM,<\/strong> Marketing Manager, Wagman Construction, York, PA (Term: September 1, 2017, to August 31, 2019)<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Carolyn Ferguson, FSMPS, CPSM, <\/strong>Owner|President, WinMore Marketing Advisors, Denton, TX (Term: September 1, 2017, to August 31, 2019)<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marion Thatch, FSMPS, <\/strong>President, Distinction in Marketing, Walnut Creek, CA (Term: September 1, 2017, to August 31, 2019)<\/p>\n<p>The Nominations and Elections Committee also recommended and the SMPS board approved the election of the following\u00a0SMPS Foundation member trustees in 2017\u201318:<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Janet Brooks, CPSM, <\/strong>Director of Business Development, Clark Nexsen, Charlotte, NC (Term: September 1, 2017, to August 31, 2019)<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Andrea Goodwin, CPSM, <\/strong>Director of Marketing, Cardno, Houston, TX (Term: September 1, 2017, to August 31, 2019)<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michael McCann, FSMPS, CPSM,<\/strong> Senior Business Development and Marketing Manager, The Clarient Group, New York, NY (Term: September 1, 2017, to August 31, 2019)<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Brad Thurman, P.E., FSMPS, CPSM,<\/strong> Principal &amp; Chief Marketing Officer, Wallace Engineering, Tulsa, OK (Term: September 1, 2017, to August 31, 2019)<\/p>\n<p>The following member trustee will continue to serve on the SMPS Foundation board in 2017\u201318:<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Melissa M. Lutz, FSMPS, CPSM,<\/strong> Principal\/Marketing Director, Champlin Architecture, Cincinnati, OH (Term: September 1, 2016, to August 31, 2018)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recapping the two-day portion of the CPSM immersion program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,21],"class_list":["post-20916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-news","tag-leadership","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42980,"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20916\/revisions\/42980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}