For Immediate Release
ASQ Announces 2008-2009 Officers
President-elect Strives for a Global Society
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 8, 2008 — The American Society for Quality (ASQ) announced the following slate of officers for the 2008-09 term:
- President – Roberto M. Saco
- Chairman – Michael D. Nichols
- President-elect – Peter L. Andres
- Treasurer – E. David Spong
- Newly Elected Board Members – Darlene Deane, Alexis P. Goncalves, Marc Kelemen, Art Trepanier
- Reelected Board Members – Belinda Chavez, Lou Anne Lathrop, Aimee Siegler, Steve Wilson
The results were announced at ASQ’s Annual Business Meeting, held in conjunction with the World Conference on Quality and Improvement, May 5–7, in Houston, Texas. Current ASQ president Michael Nichols will assume the chairman’s duties on July 1, 2008, and Roberto Saco, who is currently president-elect, will move into the president position.
“ASQ is becoming a global organization to better serve our members and to help promote sound quality practices around the world,” said Saco. “I look forward to the day when ASQ transitions from an American society with international members to a truly global society with a home and inspiration in America. By reaching out and helping others across the globe we can take ASQ to a higher level of excellence.”
“We are honor-bound to improve things. It’s in our nature. And when someone asks what we do…I believe we should justifiably say that we’re making the world a better place to live in.”
Saco is the owner and principal of his own firm, Aporia Advisors, Inc., based in Coral Gables, Fla. His areas of expertise consist of strategic planning, customer satisfaction measurement, operational process improvement and reengineering, performance assessments, Six Sigma implementation, organizational design, and business transformation initiatives.
The American Society for Quality, www.asq.org, has been the world’s leading authority on quality for more than 60 years. With more than 90,000 individual and organizational members, the professional association advances learning, quality improvement and knowledge exchange to improve business results, and to create better workplaces and communities worldwide. As champion of the quality movement, ASQ offers technologies, concepts, tools and training to quality professionals, quality practitioners and everyday consumers, encouraging all to Make Good Great®. ASQ has been the sole administrator of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award since 1991. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., ASQ is a founding partner of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), a prominent quarterly economic indicator, and also produces the Quarterly Quality Report.
