Richard Meyers Global Workspace Association Richard Meyers has fifteen years of association management experience. In 2004, he founded Association Growth Management (AGM), an association management company. He has served as the Executive Director for the Alliance Business Centers Network and the Director of Government Relations & Communications for the Natural Products Association, a 401(c)(3) association comprised of 8,000 dietary supplement and health food manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and retailers. Richard has also worked in the corporate marketing department for IHOP Corp. as a liaison between the franchisees and the franchisor company. Prior to that, his experiences on Capitol Hill included work as a Legislative Director to a Member of Congress and as a lobbyist for a lobbying firm specializing in health care appropriations for non-profit associations, including the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Richard has testified before Congress and state legislatures on behalf of associations and served as a national industry spokesman for several associations. He has been interviewed on National Public Radio and quoted in The New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. He has contributed to the growth of every association with which he has been affiliated.
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