Meanwhile, in February when the Plastics Industry Association saw an increase in departures from its key officials, Tony Radoszewski blamed, in part, turmoil from the Great Resignation.
And now Radoszewski is out as CEO of the Plastics Industry Association. Just last week, he was at Plastics News’ Executive Forum in Florida.
Obviously, we have a lot of questions (I’m sure you do, too) that we’re trying to answer. But to bring you up to date, he hasn’t been the only big name to leave the association. And there’s been changes ever since Bill Carteaux’s death in 2018.
The highest-profile losses were Patty Long and Perc Pineda. Long left in January 2020, about four months after Radoszewski joined the association. She had been chief operating officer and served as interim president and CEO after Carteaux’s death. Pineda, the group’s chief economist, left just last month.
In addition, early 2020 saw the departures of Mia Freis Quinn, then-vice president of communications; Kendra Martin, the vice president of industry affairs who oversaw the group’s Brand Owners Council; and Terry Peters, vice president of technical and industry affairs.
Susan Krys, vice president of trade shows, resigned after the association was forced by the coronavirus pandemic to cancel its mammoth NPE2021 trade show, which had been scheduled for May 2021 in Orlando, Fla.
Early 2022 saw the departures of Pineda; Michael Werner, the head of the group’s Equipment Council; and George Southworth, director of its Processors Council.
