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The American Council of Life Insurers selected **Susan Neely** as its president and CEO. She had been president and CEO of the American Beverage Association and is a former chair of ASAE’s board of directors.

**Ushma J. Suvarnakar** has been named director of meetings and events for NAMA.

ANA Enterprise—the organization encompassing the American Nurses Association, American Nurses Foundation, and American Nurses Credentialing Center—appointed **Loressa Cole, DNP**, to the chief executive officer position.

The American Occupational Therapy Association welcomed **Sherry Keramidas, Ph.D., FASAE, CAE**, as its executive director.

**Eddie Rivera** was named chief financial officer of the Credit Union National Association.

**Trina Coffey** was promoted to vice president of events and operations for the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association.

**Jessica Hrubes** is CUNA’s new vice president of strategic credit union relations.

**Peter Matz** joined the Food Marketing Institute as government relations director of food and health policy.

**Dawn Young** has been promoted from senior director of sales to vice president of hotel sales for Choose Chicago.

**Scott Steen, FASAE, CAE**, was named executive director of the American Physiological Society.

**Matt Lesnak** was promoted to vice president of product development and technology for Association Analytics.

**Keith Hymel** joined ConferenceDirect as vice president of global strategic account management.

Community Brands appointed **Rick Bradberry** chief marketing officer.

IMS Technology Services named **Warren Abraham** vice president of business development for the event staging division.

**Deedre Daniel** has joined the marketing firm Augeo in the position of senior vice president of business development.

**Greg Wilson** has been named executive director of the Child Support Directors Association of California.

Clockwise from left: Neely, Suvarnakar, Keramidas, Young, Steen, Abraham, Daniel, and Wilson.

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