CLDA Appoints Interim Executive Director

Mark McSweeney, CAE has been appointed Interim Executive Director of the Customized Logistics & Delivery Association (CLDA). McSweeney is the Vice President of Association Strategies for Raybourn Group International (RGI), which assumed management of CLDA on Jan. 1, 2023.

McSweeney has been with RGI for 10 years and has served in CEO capacities for 29 years, including national and international trade associations. He is a Certified Association Executive and received the Executive of the Year award from the Indiana Society of Association Executives. He is an active member of the American Society of Association Executives, Indiana Society of Association Executives, and Association Societies Alliance.

“We look forward to working with Mark and the rest of the RGI team,” said Jason Burns, CLDA’s president. “We chose to work with them because of their impressive record of growing membership, member engagement, member retention and the net assets of the associations they manage. We were particularly struck by their track record of increasing membership among those ages 18 to 40 by 60% over the last five years. These younger members of our last-mile community are the future of our industry and our association.”

RGI is an accredited full-service Association Management Company. The organization has managed associations with members in 107 countries that serve over 60,000 members. Headquartered in Indianapolis, RGI is one of just 15% of association management companies accredited by the AMC Institute. Since 1988 they have worked with trade and professional associations, individual membership societies, foundations, nonprofits and other membership-based organizations throughout the world.

“I am excited to work with the CLDA to help them achieve their membership and association goals,” McSweeney said. “After meeting the Board of Directors and several members, I am confident RGI is well-suited to drive membership growth, provide strategy, and a high level of service to the membership.”

An experienced transitional leader, McSweeney will serve in the role until a permanent executive director is identified. In the coming months, RGI will establish a staff team with the ideal skillsets needed to serve the CLDA priorities and ensure long-term best-in-class service in membership, marketing, meeting planning, financial, and association management.