CESSE Board of Directors

The CESSE Board of Directors consists of four Officers (who also are members of the Executive Committee) and eight Directors. Terms of office for the Board of Directors begin at the adjournment of the ACCESSE Conference. The Board appoints various committees to carry out responsibilities, reporting to the Board.

Officers

CHAIR

Neal Couture, FASAE, CAE

Chief Executive Officer, The American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT)

(2022 - 2028) 

VICE CHAIR

Wanda Johnson, CAE, CMP

Chief Executive Officer, American Society for Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN)

(2023 - 2029) 

TREASURER/SECRETARY

Jessica Silwick, CPA, MBA, CAE

CFO/COO, ABET

(2024 - 2027)

PAST CHAIR

Elena Gerstmann, PhD, FASAE, CAE

Executive Director, INFORMS

(2021 - 2027)

Directors-at-Large

Kivmars Bowling, MA

Publications Director, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

(2025 - 2028)

Joanna Colbourne, CAE

Deputy Executive Director, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID)

(2026 - 2029)

Kate Fryer, CAE

(2025 - 2028)

Frank Krause, MBA, CAE

Former CEO, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)

(2025 - 2028)

Rebecca Lintow, CAE

Executive Director, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE)

(2026 - 2029)

Jonathan Miller, CAE

Director of Membership and Communications, Ecological Society of America (ESA)

(2024 - 2027) 

Judith Scarl, PhD

Executive Director, American Ornithological Society (AOS)

(2025 - 2028)

Christie Tarantino-dean, CAE, FASAE

Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)

(2026 - 2029)