Other Institute fellows are Adam Fein, president of Pembroke Consulting; Brent Grover, president of Evergreen Consulting, LLC; Barry Lawrence, director of the Industrial Distribution Program and the Supply Chain Systems Lab at Texas A&M University; and Michael Marks, managing partner at Indian River Consulting Group.
During their terms, NAW Institute Fellows work with the NAW Institute to develop and bring new research. During their terms, NAW Institute Fellows work with the NAW Institute to develop and bring new research studies to the wholesale distribution industry. The first NAW Institute project that Blissett will undertake is the next Facing the Forces of Change report.
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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.