Recently the Foundation underwent a major changing of the guard. The former president, Johnnie Ray resigned for personal reasons and Rick Shangraw was appointed as the new CEO. I never got the chance to meet with Johnnie, but I know he was greatly admired and respected throughout the Foundation, and that he personally recruited many of our executive team members. For a while I thought it might be a rough transition, but it has been very smooth thus far and Dr. Shangraw seems like an approachable, kind and more than capable new CEO. Rick was VP for the Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development at ASU prior to this position, and before that he was the Director of the Global Institute of Sustainability. He has done extremely well communicating with all of the Foundation staff throughout the transition process. We have held a couple all staff meetings to meet him and hear about his plans for the foundation. President Crow spoke at one of the meetings and talked about his long history with Dr. Shangraw. Dr. Shangraw has also sent out a few short video messages to everyone to introduce himself, talk about his excitement to be at the foundation and just to say happy holidays. I think the videos have been pretty neat – much more personable than an email blast! I look forward to getting the chance to meet with him before my internship ends.
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