Pest Management Professional, March 2010

NEWS TRENDS AFFECTING YOUR BUSINESS Compartments NPMA Looking for Women of Excellence FAIRFAX Va The National Pest Management Association NPMA has announced a call for nominations for NPMAs Women of Excellence Award presented by Orkin This is the second year the NPMA will recognize women who advance the pest management industry every day in every way Nominations may be submitted online at npmapestworld org by no later than Friday July 30 Self nominations will be accepted NPMA is proud to provide a forum through the Women of Excellence Award to honor women who are making significant and lasting impacts upon the industry said Rob Lederer executive vice president for the NPMA This is the premier recognition program for women pest control professionals and is the only such program in the industry The international honor is open to women across the pest management industry Deserving candidates who demonstrate outstanding leadership and make notable contributions to the development and growth of the profession and to other women are encouraged to apply Nomination criteria includes Works in the pest control industry pest control operator manufacturer researcher Demonstrates leadership in her professional career Makes notable contributions to the good of her profession Helps other women succeed in the industry The winner of NPMAs Women of Excellence Award will be chosen by an esteemed and independent panel comprised of professionals with backgrounds in pest management human resources and other industries The judges are Tory Johnson Women for Hire magazine Emily Thomas Kendrick 2009 Women of Excellence Award recipient Rob Lederer NPMA Jean Seawright CMC Seawright Associates and Barbara Thorne Department of Entomology of the University of Maryland The award recipient will be notified in August and formally announced at a special award presentation during the 2010 PestWorld Convention Oct 20 23 in Honolulu We are proud to celebrate women who have made significant strides to advance their companies their colleagues and the pest control profession overall said Glen Rollins president and chief operating officer of Orkin the presenting sponsor of the annual award For additional information about the NPMA Women of Excellence Award please visit npmapestworld org or contact Dominique Stumpf at dstumpf@ pestworld org PMP PMP Expands Editorial Staff Whitford Returns CLEVELAND Questex Media Group LLC has expanded the editorial staff of Pest Management Professional PMP its publication serving the pest management industry for more than 75 years First Marty Whitford returns to Pest Management Professional as editor in chief Whitford was promoted to editor in chief of sister publication Landscape Management in April 2008 from his senior editor role with PMP He has nearly 18 years of experience in the business to business media environment with six years at Questex Marty is an award winning journalist and editorial leader at Questex who also has a very solid background in the pest management industry said Publisher George Casey We welcome his return as we re align the structure of our editorial staff to better serve the needs of the PMP audience We also want to thank Editorial Director Frank Andorka for his many contributions to PMP and the industry over the years We certainly wish him well in the future PMP editorial staff updates also include the addition of the new technical editor role Pete Grasso who served as managing editor of PMP has been promoted to the technical editor position Grasso joined PMP in 2008 and has nearly 10 years editorial experience Dan Jacobs has been named managing editor of PMP Jacobs is also managing editor for sister publication Landscape Management PMP currently delivers to its audience industry leading technology related information business managementinformation and community and human interest features which is what our research tells us they want added Casey Yet it is clear they crave even more technical content so weve created the new technical editor role and plan to disseminate even more leading technical content across our print and digital media Marty Pete and Dan play key roles in this endeavor and we are excited about PMPs future PMP 14 PEST MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL MARCH 2010 www mypmp net