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All members of ISSA are invited to personally greet the new board members when they officially take office at the ISSA General Meeting on Thursday, September 11, at 8:00 a.m. (PDT), Room N250, during ISSA/INTERCLEAN North America 2008, September 8-11, at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV, USA.

Vice president/president elect: David Holtzman, R3, Carteret, NJ
Secretary: Richard L. Rones, Americo Manufacturing Co., Inc., Acworth, GA
Manufacturer director: Allen M. Soden, Deb SBS, Inc., Stanley, NC
Distributor director-west: Leland Fishman, Fishman Supply Co., Petaluma, CA
Director-Canada: Steven Armstrong, Armstrong Manufacturing, Inc., Mississauga, ON, Canada

About the New Board Members

Vice president/president elect. David Holtzman is vice president of R3 (Reliable Redistribution Resource), an international wholesaler. He was previously president/owner of TEC Products Co.--a metro-New York City, fourth-generation family business established in 1910--and has been in the wholesale sanitary-supply distribution business for more than 30 years. Holtzman holds two MBAs from Pace University and has held several ISSA Board of Directors positions, including district director (1994-95) and secretary (2000-02). He has also served as ISSA's Regulatory & Citizenship Committee chairman, YES coordinator (1998-99), and ISSA delegate to the National Association of Wholesaler Distributors. In addition, he has been active in the Sanitary Supply Wholesaling Association (SSWA), serving 15 years as a board member, as secretary/president (1983-84 and 2004-07), and as trustee (1980-89). In 2003, he was awarded the SSWA Stanley Friedman Award of Merit. Holtzman has also served in the New Jersey Sanitary Supply Association as a board member for 11 years, including as president (1988-90).

Secretary. Richard L. Rones has worked in the sanitary-maintenance industry for 22 years and currently serves as president of the company founded by his father, Jim Rones--Americo Manufacturing Co., Inc., an Acworth, GA-based manufacturer of floor pads, hand pads and floor matting that has been a member of ISSA for 38 years. After graduating from the University of Georgia in 1986 with a bachelor's in business, Rones joined Americo as a sales associate. During his tenure, he served as vice president of national accounts and vice president of operations before being promoted to president in 1998. Rones has also served as Southeast district director on the ISSA Board of Directors (2004-06), on the ISSA Exhibitors Committee (2000) and as secretary on the Georgia Sanitary Supply Association's board of directors (2001-03).