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Advisory Board Elections  
KioskCom: SSKA Advisory Board to include more deployers By Bill Yackey
25 Apr 2007
The Self-Service & Kiosk Association hosted its semi-annual Advisory Board meeting in Las Vegas, coinciding with KioskCom’s Self Service Expo. The meeting was held at Mandalay Bay, the site of the annual tradeshow.
David Drain, SSKA executive director, facilitated the meeting.
 Elections were held for positions on the SSKA Executive Board, which meets once a month through conference call. Last year’s president, Alex Richardson of Selling Machine Partners, was unanimously re-elected.
The board approved an increase of the number of vice presidents from three to six, with three being vendor members and three being deployer members. V. Miller Newton of NetKey, Cortlandt Johnson of IBM and Ed McGunn of Corporate Safe Specialists were elected to the three vendor vice-president positions.
Two deployer positions were filled by Janet Webster of the U.S. Postal Service and Gregg Kaplan of redbox.
Special emphasis was put on the continued effort to involve deployers in the Association. Drain reported that two other deployers have joined the Advisory Board: Robert Plante of BMW North America and Dave Watkins of Build-A-Bear.
There were also discussions about the involvement of the Association in the digital signage market, with the Board deciding to continue increasing industry awareness and becoming a resource for digital signage deployers and vendors. David Drain informed the board that a digital signage council will be formed as a sub-committee of the Association. The council will have its first meeting at the Digital Signage Expo in Chicago in May.
The meeting preceded an SSKA luncheon and the Executive Deployer’s Summit, a roundtable discussion by kiosk deployers put on by KioskCom.
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