ASIS International, the association for security management professionals, announced the full slate for its 2022 Global Board of Directors and inaugural North American Regional Board of Directors and European Regional Board of Directors. 2022 global and regional directors will take office Jan. 1, 2022.

Cy A. Oatridge, CPP, of the United States has been selected to serve as Secretary/Treasurer of the Global Board in 2022, joining President Malcolm C. Smith, CPP, of Qatar; President-Elect Timothy M. McCreight, CPP, of Canada; and CEO Peter J. O’Neil, FASAE, CAE, on the Global Board’s Executive Committee.

Continuing as At Large Directors on 2022’s Global Board are Pablo Colombres, CPP, of Brazil; Joe M. Olivarez, Jr., of the United States; Axel Petri of Germany; M. Brian Reid, CPP, of the United States; Chiko Scozzafava of the United States; and Eddie Sorrells, CPP, PCI, PSP, of the United States.

Serving as ex-officio representatives to the 2022 Global Board are leaders from various ASIS volunteer groups, namely:

  • Scott A. Lowther, CPP, PCI, of Canada, representing the CSO Center Board (voting member)
  • Brian J. Allen, CPP, of the United States, representing the ASIS Foundation Board of Trustees (voting member)
  • Werner J. Cooreman, CPP, PSP, of Belgium, representing the Professional Standards Board (non-voting member)
  • Joseph Lee Rector, CPP, PCI, PSP, of the United States, representing the Professional Certification Board (non-voting member)

The seating of ASIS International’s first regional boards is the next major step in the association’s transition to a global governance structure that allows ASIS to better serve its members at the local, regional, and global levels.

North American Regional Board of Directors    

Chair: Donna M. Kobzaruk, USA    

Vice Chair: Mark J. Folmer, CPP, Canada    

Secretary/Treasurer: Craig S. Russell, CPP, USA    

Maria G. Dominguez, CPP, USA    

Richard L. Duncan, CPP, USA    

Marti Katsiaras, PSP, Canada    

Rachelle Loyear, USA    

Loye A. Manning, CPP, PSP, USA    

Leonard Moss, Jr., CPP, USA     

Susan E. Munn, CPP, Canada     

Jason M. Sikora, CPP, USA     

Jeffrey A. Slotnick, CPP, PSP, USA     


European Regional Board of Directors

Chair: Erik de Vries, CPP, PSP, The Netherlands

Vice Chair: Stephanie M. Bergouignan, CPP, France

Christina Alexander Alexandropoulou, Greece

Samuele Caruso, CPP, Italy

Secretary/Treasurer: Torsten Wolf, CPP, Switzerland

Radek Havlis, CPP, Czech Republic

Glenn Cornelis Schoen, The Netherlands

Andrew Williams, CPP, United Kingdom

Kobzaruk and de Vries, the chairs of each regional board, will serve on the ASIS Global Board of Directors.

The members of the new regional boards were selected in two stages: half of each regional board’s members were appointed by the ASIS Global Board, and the other half submitted their candidacy and were selected by a nominating committee comprised of the 2021 ASIS Global Board Nominating Committee and select volunteers from each region. These volunteers will form full Regional Board Nominating Committees for their regions beginning in 2022.

Global Board of Directors Nominating Committee

Chair: Godfried Hendriks, CPP

Pablo Colombres, CPP

Werner J. Cooreman, CPP, PSP

Melissa A. (Bostick) Mack, CPP

North American Nominating Committee           

Jason Caissie, CPP, PCI, PSP    

Lisa Pryse Terry, CPP    

Robert E. Johnson, Jr., CPP    


European Nominating Committee  

Eric Davoine, CPP 

Russell Penny, CPP

Feride Yildirim   

Hendriks, 2020 President of the ASIS Global Board, will be succeeded as chair of the Global Board Nominating Committee in 2022 by 2021 Global Board President John A. Petruzzi, Jr., CPP.

To learn more about the ASIS global governance initiative and 2022 Global Board of Directors, visit asisonline.org/GlobalGovernance.