Have you registered for the Spring Meeting yet? Keynote Speaker: Kirk Lippold


Commander Kirk Lippold, USN (Ret.), author of Front Burner: The Attack on the USS Cole, knows how to create the foundation for successful leadership that prepares teams to rise to any challenge they may face. In 2000, when the USS Cole was attacked by terrorists in Yemen, Lippold and his crew saved the American warship from sinking in the face of one of the most brazen acts of terrorism prior to September 11, 2001.


Guest Speaker : Jerrod A. Weaver


Jerrod A. Weaver is the Executive Director of the Non-Ferrous Founders’ Society, a seventy-three year old trade association headquartered in Illinois representing the U.S. non-ferrous foundry industry. NFFS members produce castings of aluminum, brass & bronze, and other nonferrous metals. Jerrod has more than twenty years of professional experience in Association Management with NFFS.


Guest Speaker: Bernard R. Gingras


Bernard R. Gingras has spent the last twenty-five years as the managing partner of Gingras, Collister, Babinski & Co. he combined this firm with Murphy, Miller & Baglieri, LLP effective January 1, 2016. This affiliation affords his clients expanded services and new technology platforms to leverage the professional relationships developed over his career. The ICI has been using Gingras’ services since 2002.


Guest Speaker: Don Zavis


Don Zavis is an accomplished executive with a successful history of taking private and public organizations to new levels of sales and profitability. He has an outstanding record of hiring the highest level of sales achievers, training them to their fullest potential and consistently coaching them to perform in the top 10% of their industries.


Guest Speaker: Ron Williams


Ron Williams, Managing Director of The Blayson Group Ltd., is responsible for the Company’s global operations and activities. He has over 30 years’ experience within the investment casting industry and has had the privilege of working closely with numerous investment casting associations, institutes and companies Worldwide. He is currently a member of the EICF Board of Directors.


#ICISpringMeet2017 Guest Speaker: Rick Alaniz


Rick Alaniz has been at the forefront of labor and employment law for over thirty- five years. He began his legal career as a trial attorney with the U.S. Dept. of Labor, served on the President’s Cost of Living Council during the Nixon Administration and also held prominent posts within the National Labor Relations Board where he coordinated the NLRB’s enforcement actions in the five-state Midwestern region.


Guest Speaker: Dr. Ken Mayland


Dr. Ken Mayland is President of ClearView Economics, LLC, a firm specializing in economic research and forecasting. He has spent more than 40 years studying the business cycle and providing economic analyses to a variety of constituencies. He is widely quoted by the media and has won numerous prestigious awards for forecasting accuracy.


Guest Speaker: William R. Nicholson


Bill Nicholson has 35 years of diversified experience in real estate, banking, and transactional M&A assignments. He has been with Heritage Capital Group since 2003 (www.heritagecapitalgroup.com) and is a director for BBX Capital, a publicly- traded diversified holding company. Bill is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received his MBA.


Guest Speaker: Stephanie Salmon


Stephanie Salmon is President of Potomac Government Relations, a government affairs firm. She has over twenty-five years of government relations experience and works with clients to represent their policy priorities before the Congress, the Executive Branch and regulatory bodies in such issue areas such as workplace safety matters, energy, environment, tax, appropriations and trade.


Guest Speaker: Darren Sekiguchi


Darren Sekiguchi leads the Boeing South Carolina Production Control and Site Supplier Management / Materials Management team. He is responsible for external and internal supply chain management and factory support for 787 aft-body composite fabrication & assembly, mid-body assembly, final assembly and pre-flight, paint & delivery.


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