Association Salary Report, page 9
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Read MoreNFL union names replacement to late Gene Upshaw
The National Football League Players Association March 15 named DeMaurice Smith as the groups executive director, effective immediately. Smith replaces Pro Football Hall of Fame member Gene Upshaw, who led the union for 25 years until his death in August.
Read MoreSenior Staff Appointments: March 2009
Government Relations Dan Brenner left the National Cable & Telecommunications Association Feb. 28 to join law firm Hogan & Hartson as a partner in the telecommunications, media and entertainment practice. NCTA has started a search for a replacement for Brenner as senior vice president for law and public policy. Brenner, who has spent 16 years working on policy at NCTA, will continue to be a consultant for the association on
Read MoreAARP selects Howard University trustee as its CEO
A. Barry Rand, a former CEO at Avis and an executive with Xerox Corp. who worked his way up the corporate ladder over 30 years with the company, has been chosen as the next CEO of AARP. Heidrick & Struggles, an executive search firm with Washington area offices, completed the CEO search. Rand succeeds CEO William Novelli, who announced two years ago that he would retire in 2010. Novelli became CEO of AARP in 2001.
Read MoreAnti-travel rhetoric ignites travel, meetings industry
Travel and hotel industry leaders are lashing back at U.S. officials who have criticized meetings, business trips and conventions as little more than corporate junkets. The sector, which includes convention and visitors bureaus, airlines and national hotel chains, is taking offense to comments like the one President Obama made to an Indiana crowd in February, when he said, You cant get corporate jets, you cant go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers dime.
Read MoreAssociation Leader: Stephen Sandherr, Associated General Contractors of America
A dramatic slowdown in activity is now hitting the building and construction industry, as builders clear a backlog of projects and predict little else in the pipeline for 2009.
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