Roundtables Choose Officers, Set Full Teleconference Schedule

NABE’s Roundtables now have officers for the coming year and are organizing a full schedule of teleconference calls on a wide variety of timely topics.

Roundtables held four teleconferences in December, leading off with a December 3 discussion of  "The Problem in Nonresidential Real Estate: How Big, How Bad, How Soon?"   This teleconference was the first of the newly formed Real Estate/Construction Roundtable; it attracted more than 60 participants.

In early December, NABE introduced an all-inclusive pass through the KnowledgeLink, giving members access to all teleconferences for $100 per year. Over the coming year, NABE President Lynn Reaser estimated that there will be about 40 teleconferences, with each of the eight Roundtables hosting four and others planned for the release of NABE surveys.  “This new benefit is a tremendous value-added program for our members,” she said.

Instead of paying separately for each teleconference, members can pay once at considerable savings if they frequently join the calls. For example, if members dialed in to all of the teleconferences in 2009, the cost was nearly $300. For more information, go to: http://nabe.com/knowledgelink/

Officers Named

NABE Board Member and Roundtable Coordinator Kevin Swift, chief economist and managing director of the American Chemical Council, announced the following officers for the coming year:

• Corporate Planning Roundtable Chair Sara Johnson, IHS Global Insight, and Vice Chair Daniel Bean, FDIC;

• Health Economic Roundtable Chair Paul Hughes-Cromwick, Altarum Institute, Vice Chair Richard O'Sullivan, Change Management Solutions, and officers Margaret Fowke, National Weather Service, and Holly Wade, National Federation of Independent Business;

• International Roundtable Chair Stuart Mackintosh, Group of Thirty, Vice Chair Jay Bryson, Wells Fargo, and officers Constance Hunter, Galtere Ltd, William Janis, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Kathleen Stephansen, Credit Suisse;

• Manufacturing Roundtable Chair David Huether, National Association of Manufacturers, Vice Chair Carl Chrappa, Independent Equipment Company, and Lloyd Nace, Trane;

• Real Estate and Construction Roundtable Chair Ken Simonson, Associated General Contractors of America, Vice-Chairs Sara Rutledge, Invesco, and Jesse Abraham, Wells Fargo;

• Regional Utility Roundtable Chair Ann Dunbar, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Vice Chair Michael Chriszt, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and officers Robert Kleinhenz, California Association of Realtors, Mark Vitner, Wells Fargo, and Ray Whitman, Job Trends Associates Inc.;

• Financial Roundtable Chair Nayantara Hensel, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, and Vice Chair Anne Wenzel, Econosystems.

Each Roundtable maintains a calendar and provides other information on webpagesPodcasts of conference calls are available as well.  To join a Roundtable or switch from one to another, call the NABE office at (202) 463-6223 or e-mail nabe@nabe.com

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