Promotional Products Association Intl. (PPAI), Irving, Texas, announced the recipients of the 2016 PPAI Distinguished Service Award during its North American Leadership Conference in Nashville, Tenn.
The 2016 recipients — Bruce Felber, director of marketing and sales support for The Image Group, and Teresa Moisant, owner and president of Moisant Promotional Products —will be honored at the Chairman’s Leadership Dinner during The PPAI Expo, to be held Jan. 10-14, 2016, in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
Felber is a former member of the PPAI Board of Directors, serving from 2009-2013, including a term as vice chair of membership. He also has been an active volunteer in the association’s committees and action groups, and currently serves on its Certification Committee and Public Relations Advisory Group.
Outside of PPAI, Felber’s volunteer work within the industry includes leadership roles at the Promotional Products Education Foundation and the Ohio Promotional Professionals Association (OPPA), where he served as board president in 1995 and 2001. He was inducted into the regional association’s Hall of Fame in 2008. Felber frequently speaks at The PPAI Expo and Expo East, and is a regular contributor to the association’s educational webinar series and its publications.
Moisant is a long-time volunteer and advocate for the promotional products industry and has widely shared its message with her community and region, speaking in the field regularly at the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma City Community College, as well as numerous area business and professional groups.
Moisant also has led a number of PPAI’s committees, including the Marketing Information & Research Advisory Council, the Public Relations Advisory Council, the Membership Services Advisory Council and the Distributors Advisory Council, and has served on the PPEF board. She is a regular speaker and panelist at The PPAI Expo and the PPAI Women’s Leadership Conference, and with the Promotional Products Association of the Southwest.
For more information, visit ppai.org. — L.V.
