{"id":947,"date":"2013-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/network.napco.com\/print-and-promo\/article\/ppai-welcomes-new-directors-board-25065619\/"},"modified":"2015-07-30T10:48:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T10:48:06","slug":"ppai-welcomes-new-directors-board-25065619","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/network.napco.com\/print-and-promo\/article\/ppai-welcomes-new-directors-board-25065619\/","title":{"rendered":"PPAI Welcomes New Directors to Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppai.org\" target=\"_blank\">Promotional Products Association International (PPAI)<\/a> has announced new board members Bruce Perryman, MAS+, CEO of supplier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euinc.net\" target=\"_blank\">Embroidery Unlimited Inc.<\/a>, and Mary Jo Tomasini, CAS, CEO of distributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.competitive-edge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">CE Competitive Edge LLC<\/a>. In addition, David Nicholson, president of supplier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyconcept.com\/Website\/site\/eng_home.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Polyconcept North America<\/a>, parent company to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leedsworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leed&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulletline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bullet<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journalbooks\/Timeplanner Calendars<\/a>, has been appointed to the PPAI board to fill the inaugural at-large director seat with full voting rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be a great pleasure to serve with Bruce, Mary Jo and David,&#8221; said Marc Simon, PPAI board chair. &#8220;Kudos to the Leadership Advisory Committee for presenting the membership with four excellent and well-qualified board election candidates. Both Mary Jo and Bruce bring a wealth of experience, know-how and leadership skills that our Association needs in these ever more challenging times. And all of us are very fortunate that David has agreed to serve a two-year term as our first board member-at-large under our new board structure. \u200eDavid is truly a thought leader and brings a wealth of talent and knowledge to the board as president of PCNA, a leading industry supplier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new board members will begin their terms immediately following The PPAI Expo 2014. Perryman and Tomasini will serve four-year terms, while Nicholson&#8217;s term is for two years. The at-large director seat is part of the board of directors restructure and bylaws changes announced to members in April 2012. Nicholson was selected from a field of distributors, suppliers, multiline reps, business services, international suppliers and international distributors, and he was nominated by a committee consisting of the PPAI board chair, chair-elect and immediate past chair.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppai.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.ppai.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promotional Products Association International (PPAI) has announced new board members Bruce Perryman, MAS+, CEO of supplier Embroidery Unlimited Inc., and Mary Jo Tomasini, CAS, CEO of distributor CE Competitive Edge LLC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","coauthors":[29487],"class_list":["post-947","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-promo-products","tag-at-large-director","tag-at-large-director-join","tag-at-large-director-seat","tag-board","tag-board-election-candidates","tag-board-members","tag-board-members-bruce","tag-competitive-edge","tag-director","tag-director-join-board","tag-distributor","tag-members","tag-ppai","tag-promotional-products-association","tag-supplier","tag-supplier-embroidery","tag-term","tag-well-qualified-board-election","company-expo-inc","company-journalbookstimeplanner-calendar","company-ppai","person-bruce-perryman","person-david-nicholson","person-mary-jo-tomasini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/network.napco.com\/print-and-promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/network.napco.com\/print-and-promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/network.napco.com\/print-and-promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network.napco.com\/print-and-promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network.napco.com\/print-and-promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network.napco.com\/print-and-promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/network.napco.com\/print-and-promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network.napco.com\/print-and-promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}