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Corporate experience key to success as association CEO

Advocacy is all about relationships, says Joe McGuire, but influence hinges on subject matter expertise and credibility Joe McGuire has the trifecta of Washington, D.C., experience: government, corporate and association.He worked for the U.S. Department of Energy, two associations and the Washington, D.C., office of AlliedSignal, now Honeywell, before joining the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers as CEO in 1999. But the one job, McGuire said, that best prepared him to lead AHAM was his five-year stint as director of legislative and regulatory affairs for AlliedSignal. The billion-dollar conglomerate was a member of several trade associations and McGuire had to… Read More