The Board’s eight voting directors are appointed by the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED) and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA). The 2016-2017 IDEA Officers are: Chairman - Christopher Curtis, Schneider Electric; Vice Chairman - David Rosenstein, Connexion; Treasurer - Andrew Quinn, president, ILSCO ; Secretary - Rick Gigliotti, V.P., sales operations, WESCO Distribution; NAED-Appointed Board Members: Rick Gigliotti; Phil Hale, CIO, Elliott Electric Supply; David Rosenstein; Wes Smith, president, Mayer Electric Supply; NEMA-Appointed Board Members: Jack Carlson, executive V.P. and president, North American Business, Southwire; Ted Crandall, senior V.P. & CFO, Rockwell Automation; Christopher Curtis; and Andrew Quinn.
“Over the last year, IDEA made significant strides to better address the data needs of our channel, particularly through the rising success of the Data Certification Program” said Curtis. “With plans in place to further enhance the value that manufacturers and distributors receive from IDEA’s services and applications throughout 2016 and beyond, I anticipate that we’ll see continued drive and growth from IDEA.”
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.
