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Former ‘up and comers' live up to promised potential

CEO Update recently caught up with three association executives who had been identified in the past as people to watch Lawrence Soler was working as COO for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in 2010 when he got a call from a recruiter about a job opportunity—CEO of a new nonprofit, Partnership for a Healthier America, which was being created to combat childhood obesity. It was a career move the nonprofit executive had been building toward all his life. When CEO Update interviewed Soler in 2008 as part of an "Up and Comers" series, he was directing JDRF's grassroots and legislative activities, having a few years earlier launched a successful advocacy campaign that… Read More