The American Society for Quality (ASQ) on May 21 announced the following slate of officers for the 2009-2010 term:
· President – Peter L. Andres, Boeing Company, Integrated Defense Systems, Huntington Beach, Calif.
· Chairman – Roberto M. Saco, Aporia Advisors, Inc., Coral Gables, Fla.
· President-elect – E. David Spong, Boeing Company (retired), Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
· Treasurer – Jim Rooney, ABSG Consulting, Knoxville, Tenn.
· Newly elected board member – Lloyd Barker, Alcoa, Inc., New York, N.Y.
· Reelected board member – Kay A. Kendall, Westford, Mass.
The results were announced at ASQ’s annual business meeting, held in conjunction with the World Conference on Quality and Improvement, May 18-20, in Minneapolis. Current ASQ president Roberto M. Saco will assume the chairman’s duties July 1, 2009, and Peter L. Andres, who is currently president-elect, will move into the president position.
“As ASQ president, I look forward to meeting challenges together—doing our work to advance the cause and awareness of quality together,” said Andres, during his official inaugural address at the World Conference Annual Banquet May 19. “We are a community – a family – an association of quality professionals. I encourage you to take care of the most important relationships, the relationship with your quality colleagues – the new ones, the virtual ones, and those most treasured long lasting ones – after all, it’s about the people.”
Andres also voiced his commitment to continue advancing ASQ's key initiatives: the ASQ Learning Institute, global expansion, Socially Responsible Organization, and the Quality Body of Knowledge (QBOK).
Andres has more than 25 years of experience in quality management, primarily in the aerospace industry. His areas of expertise include application of quality management systems, acquisition quality strategies, and process improvement methods. He is currently a quality engineer with Integrated Defense Systems at the Boeing Company in Huntington Beach, Calif. He began working for Boeing Company in 1996.
ASQ, 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, ASQ is a founding partner of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), a prominent quarterly economic indicator, and also produces the Quarterly Quality Report.
