This year is particularly exciting for me because I am fulfilling a life-long dream of mine, which was to be the president of ASA. Growing up in this business and becoming involved in ASA for the first time in 1977, the more I experienced, the more I knew that someday I wanted to have the chance to lead this organization. And here I am, starting my term and looking at a year of endless possibilities for ASA and our industry as a whole.
Now, in order to be effective, I realize I need to focus my time and energy on just a few of those endless possibilities. In thinking about what I see as priorities for our industry and what kind of support that I - as a fellow wholesaler - need from my industry association, I am starting off my presidency focusing on two items: continuing with the Professional Peer Networking Councils started by my predecessor, Joel Becker, and invigorating ASA’s Government Affairs program.