Electronic Retailing Association Promotes Jennifer Williamson to Vice President, Industry Relations and Strategy

Williamson Promoted To New Post from Director Industry Relations and Strategic Initiatives

WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESSWIRE / July 21, 2016 / The Electronic Retailing Association (ERA) (www.retailing.org) has promoted Jennifer Williamson to the position of Vice President, Industry Relations and Strategy from her previous post as Director Industry Relations and Strategic Initiatives, it was announced by Chris Reinmuth, President and Chief Executive officer.

In her new position, Williamson will oversee ERA’s external publishing activities, Board Relations, Membership Strategic Planning, planning for the annual Moxie Awards Event and Volunteer Engagement Program.

A nonprofit executive with 20 years of experience working with regional and national nonprofit organizations and associations, Williamson has held senior-level positions with the Northern Virginia Technology Council and the National Risk Retention Association, and was recently appointed to American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Small Staff Association Committee. In addition, Williamson has provided staff support and leadership as a volunteer with several nonprofit Boards and is currently President of the Board of Directors of Artomatic, a nonprofit arts organization. She also volunteers her time on a weekly basis at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Virginia visiting patients with her dog as a therapy animal team.

Williamson earned her BS from James Madison University, a MS in Nonprofit & Association Management and an MBA from the University of Maryland. She earned the CAE (Certified Association Executive) credential from the American Society of Association Executives in 2004 and will be a 2016 graduate of the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Institute for Organization Management where she will earn the IOM credential.

“Jennifer has served ERA with total dedication the Association and its membership. Her enormous contributions over her years to ERA have played a pivotal role in the Association’s growth. We look forward to continuing to benefit from Jennifer’s commitment and creativity as she moves into her expanded senior executive role,” said Reinmuth.

About the Electronic Retailing Association:

The Electronic Retailing Association (ERA) serves as the exclusive trade association representing the $350 billion direct-to-consumer marketplace. ERA membership spans the globe to encompass all levels of direct marketers, from start-up companies to global leaders that employ the power of direct response to market across all platforms including television, digital media and radio to achieve a consumer-direct, measurable and accountable response. In addition to helping grow its members’ business opportunities and profitability as a major resource for networking, business tools and information, ERA is also the voice of the direct-to-consumer industry in the nation’s Capital, working daily to protect the regulatory and legislative climate in an ongoing effort to ensure direct response marketers’ ability to bring quality products and services to the consumer. Through its acclaimed self-regulatory guidelines, ERA is also dedicated to building consumer trust in direct response-marketed products and services.

CONTACT:

SSA Public Relations
Steve Syatt
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(818) 907-0500

SOURCE: The Electronic Retailing Association

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