IAPMO recently announced CEO Russ Chaney will be retiring at the end of the year. The newly appointed CEO is Dave Viola. Both Russ and Dave are personal friends. When Russ and I discussed his retirement more than a year ago, he asked me to keep it quiet until it was announced. I honored his wish and have not written about his great deeds at IAPMO.
When he told me he was going to retire, we reminisced about a conversation we had more than 25 years ago. We ran into each other at the Phoenix airport and decided to share a cab to the meeting we were attending. As we walked to the cab stand, a limo driver approached us and said he would charge us the same as a cab if we took his limo. So, we figured why not take a limo and act important?