Gary LaBranche, FASAE, CAE, is the Chief Executive Officer of RIMS, the risk management society®. RIMS empowers risk professionals to make the world safer, more secure, and more sustainable. Through networking, professional development, certification, advocacy, and research, RIMS serves more than 200,000 risk practitioners and business leaders from over 75 countries. Founded in 1950, the Society publishes the award-winning Risk Management Magazine and produces RISKWORLD®?, the largest annual gathering of global risk professionals. RIMS embraces diversity, equity and inclusion and welcomes all risk professionals to explore the online Risk Knowledge library, tune into the RIMScast podcast series, and engage with the Society via LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. To learn more, visit www.RIMS.org.
As CEO, LaBranche provides strategic executive leadership to advance the society’s mission and represents RIMS to Congress, the media, and other audiences. LaBranche has been an association professional for 41+ years and has served as CEO for three other organizations and as a senior executive at several others. The American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) named him the Key Award winner for 2007, the highest award in the association management profession. He was also the 2012 National Association Executive of the Year. The Association Forum named him the 2019 recipient of the Samuel B. Shapiro Award for Chief Executive Achievement. He is a member of the US Chamber’s Association Committee of 100. He is treasurer of the International Federation of Risk Management Associations. He is a published author and an independent filmmaker.
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