Meet Your Instructors

Ken Schoppmann, CAE, IOM

Executive Director, Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities

For more than 25 years, Ken Schoppmann created the means to advance the mission of diverse nonprofit organizations, including trade and professional associations. He is currently the Executive Director for the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities, an international professional membership society representing professionals working in shared research facilities around the world.

Ken has led numerous organizations through various stages of development, expanding and enhancing internal capacity and improving their value to stakeholders. As a servant leader, he is motivated to help groups achieve more together than they can by themselves. Ken has worked in all areas of association management, including finance, administration, event management, membership, board development, and strategic planning. He has successfully collaborated with volunteer leaders to evaluate and elevate their programs, increasing member recruitment and retention. Ken partners with subject matter experts from diverse fields to develop new content and create new ways to meet evolving members’ needs.

Ken also serves as a pro bono consultant for local nonprofit groups, leading teams to help mission-driven organizations enhance their capacity, including strategic planning, fundraising, and board development.

Ken is a Certified Association Executive and a holds an Institute of Organizational Management certificate from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He completed his Masters in Organization Management at George Washington University and his undergraduate work in Economics at Georgetown University

Dave Bergeson currently serves as Executive Director of CASSS, a professional society of over 6,000 industry, academic and regulatory professionals.

CASSS is dedicated to facilitating the sharing of resources, information, and best practices in order to advance scientific knowledge for the benefit of the biopharma community and the public at large. CASSS membership includes scientists from more than 30 nations and nearly every continent. CASSS meetings and symposia take place throughout the North America, Europe, Japan, and now South America.

Dave has been the Executive Director of several domestic and international trade associations during his 20 plus years’ experience in association management. As Executive Director of APHON, Dave led them through several challenges and opportunities, including a redesign of the association newsletter and web site, revisions to the bylaws, the development of a conference app, renegotiation of a journal contract, a very busy online member community and several award-winning publications. Under Dave’s leadership, APHON was awarded two ASAE Power of A Awards in 2017, and has received several ASAE and Association Trends product awards.

Dave also served as a Senior Consultant at AMC and spoken and consulted on many aspects of association governance. Past projects included Strategic Planning, Board Governance Restructuring, Committee and Task Force Restructuring, International Growth Strategies, Effective Board Governance, and Effective Component Relationships, Volunteer Board Education and Development and Association Mergers and Acquisitions. In his volunteer time, Dave served as Past Chair of Association Forum, the “association of associations” in Chicago, and served on this Board for several years. The mission of Association Forum is to advance the professional practice of association management.