Export development leadership role for former LHCA president
Former president of the Leather and Hide Council of America Stephen Sothmann has been named as the executive director of non-profit private-sector trade association the US Agricultural Export Development Council (USAEDC).
Mr Sothmann left the Leather and Hide Council of America a year ago after more than a decade of leading efforts to promote US exports of hides and leather, and to champion the global leather sector. He joined a specialist Washington DC-based agricultural trade policy company, DTB.
Now, USAEDC has appointed DTB to manage the organisation, with Stephen Sothmann as executive director.
USAEDC executive committee chairman, Greg Tyler, commented: “The executive committee and board of directors are thrilled with this selection and look forward to the DTB team’s leadership in guiding USAEDC. We are confident in their ability to advance the organisation, building on our past successes while addressing the new challenges and opportunities faced by the 70-plus agricultural trade associations that make up this unique group.”
