FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 21, 2004

Lori M. Anderson, International Sign Association's New President and CEO

Alexandria, VA -- The Board of Directors of the International Sign Association (ISA) hired Lori M. Anderson as the association’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Anderson begins working for the organization on August 16.

“The No. 1 quality Lori brings to ISA is a good history of leadership,” says ISA Vice Chairman Ebbie Phillips, who served on the association’s search committee. “She’s proven that leadership quality through 13 years with the Society of the Plastics Industry. There’s a good style about her.”

Anderson was with the Society of the Plastics Industry for 13 years, and spent her first six years with the Society in the organization’s government affairs department. She eventually rose to the position of manager.

Following her time as manager, Anderson became Director of International and Economic Issues. As director, she developed an international strategic plan for the Society that included trade missions to eight foreign countries.

After four years as Director, Anderson was made Senior Director. She was responsible for leading all strategic planning and industry relations activities, and reported to the Society’s Board of Directors. She directed a seven-person senior leadership team in integrating her long-term planning strategies into all aspects of the Society. She was also chief media spokesperson, and a speaker for the worldwide plastics industry.

Before her tenure with the Society, Anderson worked as a legislative assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives, and spent five years as an educator in the Parshall, N.D., and Hartford County, Md., school systems.

Anderson possesses other abilities that make her ideal for the position of ISA president and CEO, Phillips says. “She’s an information gatherer,” he says. “She’s excellent at gathering the kinds of data the association needs to bring us together.

“Lori’s a good communicator,” he adds. “She’ll work well with committees and with the Board to build a consensus. She’s done it before with her work in government relations and in developing international opportunities. She knows how to tie all this into ISA’s needs.”

ISA is a 2,200 member organization composed of manufacturers, users, and suppliers of on-premise signs and sign products produced by more than 400,000 employees in all 50 states and 69 foreign countries. ISA exists to support, promote, and improve the $30 billion-a-year sign industry, which sustains the nation’s nearly $3 trillion-a-year retail industry.

ISA (International Sign Association)
Phone: (703) 836-4012
Website URL: www.signs.org