Jeffry W. Raynes will be the IEEE’s next executive director. He succeeds Daniel J. Senese, who retired in December.

Raynes, 51, will take over the position in November. He will serve as the organization’s chief operating officer and will manage the IEEE’s staff of approximately 900 employees in several U.S. and overseas locations.

Since 1995, Raynes has served as executive director and chief operating officer of APICS The Association for Operations Management, in Alexandria, Va. The group is an international educational society for operations management, including issues involving production, inventory, the supply chain, materials management, purchasing, and logistics. The organization has nearly 60 000 members in 20 000 companies around the world.

Before he joined APICS, Raynes was executive vice president and chief executive officer of the North American Die Casting Association, in Wheeling, Ill.; president and chief executive officer of the Better Home Heat Council of Boston; and director of marketing for Association Management Corp., in Springfield, N.J.

“Jeffry’s 25 years of experience as a chief staff officer of professional associations makes him a natural fit for the world’s largest technical-professional organization,” says W. Cleon Anderson, 2005 IEEE President and CEO. ”The board and I are confident that his demonstrated expertise in association leadership will help the IEEE to not only meet but exceed the needs and expectations of its members worldwide.”

Raynes is a Certified Association Executive and was chairman of the board of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) for 2000 and 2001. He was named an ASAE Fellow in 1987.He received a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from the University of Maine in 1976 and is an honorary life member of the Board of Directors of the University of Maine Alumni Association.