McLernon gives foreign companies voice
- March 18, 2016 |
- Walt Williams
CEO help grow association over 25 years McLernon Nancy McLernon was working at a Washington, D.C., think tank in 1990 when she received the offer to head a new association representing foreign corporations with U.S. subsidiaries. It was a lonely job at first. "We started off in a teeny tiny office—one of those ready-made office suites," she said. "I was sharing not only an office with my assistant but an actual desk with her, and a phone. So she would answer the phone and she would look at me and say, ‘Let me see if she is here.'" That association, the Organization for International Investment, now has 11 staff and a nearly $5 million budget. After guiding OFII though its… Read More