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 our members of the Board of Directors are elected at the PSMA Annual Meeting held every year during the APEC conference. Each Director serves a three year term and is eligible to be reelected for one additional term.
In this issue we would like to acknowledge Ed Herbert and Donald Woodard who were first elected in 2012, and will be finishing their terms at the Annual Meeting at APEC 2018. We thank them both for their six years of service to PSMA and the industry.
Ed Herbert received his BEEE from Yale University in 1963. He worked as a design engineer, a project engineer, an engineering supervisor, then as engineering manager until 1985. Since then he has been independent, promoting patented technology for license.
Ed serves is Co-Chair of the PSMA Magnetics Committee. He is an active participant in the Power Electronics Packaging Committee and Power Technology Roadmap Committee and an occasional participant in several other committees.
He helped with the design of the Energy Efficiency Database. He sponsored all three phases of Core Loss Studies and wrote Supplemental Reports further analyzing the data. He has chaired and presented at several APEC Industry Sessions. He helped organize the High Frequency Magnetics workshops in 2016 and 2017, and is helping with the workshop planned for March 2018. He recently sponsored two special projects to study flux propagation in ferrites; both are on-going.
Ed has been enriched by his association with PSMA and welcomes the opportunity to give more in return.
Provided by Ed Herbert, Independent Inventor
Donald Woodard is president of Venable Instruments, a leader in the research, development and manufacture of frequency response analyzers for testing, measurement and power supply design. The Company was founded in 1979 by H. Dean Venable, the pioneer of stability analysis, and Woodard became President in 1999. Woodard was elected to Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) Board of Directors in 2012, supported by his vast experience serving on the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) committee since 2002. His eight-year tenure as APEC's Exhibits Chairman saw exceptional growth in both vendor participation and exhibit attendance. Woodard is known throughout the power electronics world for his proven leadership and active commitment to advancing the standards, collective direction and corporate responsibility within the industry.
Prior to extending his leadership acumen to Venable Instruments, PSMA and APEC, Woodard spent 25 years working in the private sector in executive management, sales and marketing roles at FMC Corporation.
Woodard graduated from the former North Texas State University (now The University of North Texas) in 1976 with a B.B.A. in Sales & Marketing. A native of East Texas, he and his wife of 31 years, Melony, have called Austin home since 1995. They are parents of two children, with two grandchildren rounding out their growing family. The Woodards are active members of Austin Ridge Bible Church and serve on several non-profit committees and outreach programs, such as Mobile Loaves and Fishes. In his spare time, he enjoys fly fishing, bird hunting, competitive shooting and all things rock and roll.
Provided by Donald Woodard, President, Venable Instruments
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