At a Nov. 13 ceremony in Washington, D.C., former IAPMO® CEO GP Russ Chaney formally accepted the American National Standards Institute’s (ANSI) Chairman’s Award, which recognizes “exemplary contributions to the voluntary consensus standardization community and efforts to increase the critical voice of consumers in standardization activities.”
Chaney and 25 other recipients of ANSI’s2024 Leadership and Service Awards were honored at the ANSI Leadership and Service Awards Ceremony, held in conjunction with World Standards Week in our nation’s capital.
Throughout his tenure at IAPMO, Chaney was a strong advocate for high quality standards, product certification and testing, and working with all stakeholders, including the local community, to ensure people everywhere benefited from IAPMO’s work. He passionately led IAPMO to work with numerous global entities to bring codes and standards, product certification, or product testing to places such as Vietnam, Kuwait, Jordan, Philippines, Indonesia, India, China, and Australia, in addition to IAPMO’s work in North America. Chaney retired in 2020.
“I learned a long time ago that when you’re recognized for an award like this that you’re blessed to have unbelievable staff members who allow you to do what you’ve done and I share this honor with them,” Chaney said. “We were always passionate at ANSI to ensure that standards developers, conformity assessment bodies and even credentialing bodies understood the importance of having consumers intimately involved in the development of standards and all of the work ANSI performs so very well. So, it is really an honor for me to be recognized as a contributor to that effort.”
Geoff Bilau
Last modified: December 10, 2024