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IFCP Elects Officers at ICAC Plenary Meeting in Cartagena
IFCP Elects Officers at ICAC Plenary Meeting in Cartagena
Mr.
Mark A. Messura was elected
Chairman of the International Forum for Cotton Promotion (IFCP) for a second
term at the Annual Business Meeting of the membership held in Cartagena de Indias on October 01, 2013. Mr.
Messura is the Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain Marketing for U.S.
based Cotton Incorporated. Mr. Zbigniew
Roskwitalski, IFCP Chairman for five consecutive terms, is the Immediate
Past Chairman. Mr. Roskwitalski is the Executive Director of the Izba Bawelny w
Gdyni (Gdynia Cotton Association). The meeting ran concurrently with the 72nd
Plenary Meeting of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC).
Elected to the role of Vice Chairman is
Elke Hortmeyer, Director of Economic
Research, Publications and Communications at Bremer Baumwollbörse (Bremen
Cotton Exchange), and Nayan C. Mirani, Vice President of the
Cotton Association of India (CAI), will serve a third term as Treasurer.
Jeffrey
Silberman continues in the post of
Executive Director of the IFCP. He is also the Chairperson of the Textile
Development and Marketing Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology
(FIT) in New York City.
According to Mr. Messura, “It is an
honor to have this opportunity to serve as Chairman of the IFCP as we continue
to improve the global competitive position of cotton through generic cotton
promotion.”
The International Forum for Cotton
Promotion (IFCP) provides a global informational exchange that encourages
generic cotton demand enhancement activity. The IFCP provides examples of ways
to inexpensively promote cotton on a sub-national, national, and transnational
basis, in ways that can be replicated around the world. <http://www.cottonpromotion.org>.The IFCP represents 15 member organizations from 12 countries.
The terms of office begin immediately.