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some of the industry’s largest and most successful supplier and dis-
tributor companies will join Graham and Lehew to delve into life,
values and finding meaning in the modern, fast-paced, always-on,
high-risk business world. The panel focuses on establishing authen-
ticity and value alongside profits and progress.
To learn more about The PPAI Expo 2015 and to register, visit
expo.ppai.org.
The Promotional Products Education
Foundation (PPEF) has named its 2015
officers and completed its trustee elec-
tion for the 2015-2018 term.
Serving January 2015 to January
2016, the incoming officers are:
Chair:
Rebecca Kollmann, MAS+, AIA
Corporation
Immediate Past Chair:
Kippie Helzel,
MAS, CPS/Keystone
Chair Elect:
Pat Dugan, MAS,
Budgetcard Inc.
Vice Chair – Fundraising:
Lori Bauer,
BIC Graphic North America
Vice Chair – Strategic Planning/
Budget:
David Tate, Signet, Inc.
Vice Chair – Scholarship:
Carol de Ville,
MAS, The Branding Company
Vice Chair – Marketing:
Ted Fuehr,
MAS, Incentives International
Vice Chair – Recognition:
David
DeGreeff, MAS, BigBang Corporate
Apparel
The incoming trustees’ three-year
terms begin following the PPEF’s board
meeting at The PPAI Expo 2015. The
incoming trustees are:
Christine Lovell, MAS, Advertising
Specialty Institute (ASI)
Lovell is the senior vice president of
sales at ASI and has been with the com-
pany and the indus-
try for 23 years. She
has donated consid-
erable amounts of
time to serving with-
in the industry,
including 11 years
with the Gold Coast
Promotional
Products Association leading its mem-
bership, bylaws and trade-show commit-
tees; four years on PPAI’s Marketing
Information & Research Committee; two
years with the foundation, and four years
as an Incentive Marketing Association
board member and co-chair of its
Membership Retention Committee.
Danny Rosin, Brand Fuel
Rosin is a 24-year veteran of the pro-
motional products industry and has for the
past 17 years led distributor Brand Fuel.
He is the incoming
vice president of the
board for the
Carolinas Association
of Advertising &
Marketing
Professionals, and he
runs its Raleigh-
Durham-Chapel Hill
CAAMPfire Program. He is also a founding
chef and board member of PromoKitchen,
and is the co-founder and board president
of Band Together, a volunteer-driven non-
profit that supports local charities through
live music.
Kim Newell, president of World Wide
Lines, and Bruce Perryman, MAS+, CEO
of Embroidery Unlimited, are also joining
the PPEF Board at The PPAI Expo 2015
as PPAI Board representatives. They
were appointed by PPAI Board Chair
Mark Jenkins, MAS+, and approved by
the PPEF Board.
PPEF Names Incoming Trustees, 2015 Board Officers
Rebecca
Kollmann, MAS+
Kippie Helzel,
MAS
Pat Dugan, MAS
Lori Bauer
David Tate
Carol de Ville,
MAS
Ted Fuehr, MAS
David DeGreeff,
MAS
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