[SFDXA] Tom Gallagher, NY2RF, Will Succeed David Sumner, K1ZZ as ARRL CEO

[Bill]

Last night the ARRL Board of Directors held a special electronic meeting
and unanimously elected Tom as CEO and Secretary effective April 18,
2016. Tom is from our Division (SFL Section) and brings outstanding
experience to the League. Vice Director Mike Lee, AA6ML, and I very
much look forward to working with him.

Story from arrl.org:

Tom Gallagher, NY2RF, of West Palm Beach, Florida, will succeed David
Sumner, K1ZZ, as the chief executive officer of ARRL, effective April
18. In that role, he will oversee all activities at ARRL Headquarters
in Newington, Connecticut. Meeting in a special webinar session on
January 25, all 15 ARRL Directors voted to elect Gallagher as CEO and
Secretary, positions that Sumner will relinquish on April 18. Gallagher
will join the ARRL staff as CEO-Elect on February 29, and a transition
period will follow.

“I am excited by the prospects of ARRL’s Second Century, but I am
equally mindful of Dave Sumner’s enormous 4-decade contribution to
our organization and of the extraordinary contributions he has made to
advancing the art and science of Amateur Radio, to growing our ranks,
and to expanding the sheer enjoyment of ham radio around the world,”
Gallagher said.

Gallagher said he is looking forward to attending the ARRL 2016
National Convention, hosted by the Orlando HamCation, February 12-14.

Licensed in Pennsylvania in 1966 as WA3GRF (and later N4GRF in North
Carolina), Gallagher is a member of the West Palm Beach Amateur Radio
Group. He describes himself as “an incurable HF DXer and inveterate
tinkerer” and credits his first visit to the Franklin Institute’s
Amateur Radio station W3TKQ in 1963 for inspiring his interest in ham
radio.

Amateur Radio led to an early career in broadcasting. He was a
cameraman and technician with WGBH-TV in Boston, the CBS Television
Network, and Metromedia’s WIP Radio in Philadelphia.

He joins ARRL following 3 decades as an international investment banker
and financial services executive. His career has included senior
leadership positions with JP Morgan Chase & Co and CIBC Oppenheimer &
Co in New York, and with Wachovia Capital Markets in Charlotte, North
Carolina. He has also served as an adjunct professor at the Walsh
School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and as CEO of the
Secondary School Admission Test Board in Princeton, New Jersey.
Gallagher has served on boards, both public and non-profit, including
two NYSE companies, the NPR affiliate in Charlotte, the Executive Board
of The PENN Fund at the University of Pennsylvania, and The
International Center of Photography.

Gallagher graduated magna cum laude with a BA from the University of
Pennsylvania, and he holds an MBA from The Wharton School. He is a
graduate of The Lawrenceville School, where he held the Nicholas Noyes
scholarship.

In addition to ham radio, Gallagher enjoys saltwater fishing and
sailing which, he confesses, is sometimes just an excuse to operate
maritime mobile.

At his Florida home along the Intracoastal Waterway, Gallagher has
maintained a fairly low Amateur Radio profile, with a wire antenna
that, he says, works well into Europe and Latin America. He also has a
40 meter Windom. “I would like to work Asia when I get a better HF
antenna solution,” he said. Gallagher has both modern and vintage
stations as well as a high-speed multimedia (HSMM) digital repeater.

Gallagher and his wife Lindy Allyn divide their time between West Palm
Beach, Florida, and Manhattan. They have three sons. He plans to return
to Connecticut; he'd lived previously for 13 years in New Canaan.

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