CEO DATELINE - SmithBucklin CEO stepping down
CEO DATELINE - SmithBucklin CEO stepping down
- February 19, 2015 |
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Givray helped tranform company into employee-owned organization
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Henry Givray will step down as president and CEO of SmithBucklin at the end of the year, the Chicago-based association management company announced Thursday. In his place, Executive Vice President Matt Sanderson will be promoted to CEO.
Givray has a long history with SmithBucklin. He first joined the company in 1983 and worked for nearly 13 years as chief executive for several of its client associations. He left in 1996 to work in the IT sector, but returned in 2002 as the company's CEO. In 2005 he led an effort to make SmithBucklin an employee-owned company, overseeing the transfer of ownership from financial investors to employees.
Givray will step down Dec. 31 but will remain chairman of the company's board of directors after his departure.
Sanderson joined SmithBucklin in 2010. He previously was a director with Sikich Investment Banking. He also was business development lead for the geographic information system company Navteq, which was later acquired by Nokia.
He has an MBA from the University of Chicago.