June 25, 2009

CLEVELAND – Derek Lochbaum, director of trademarks and licensing for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was selected by the members of the International Collegiate Licensing Association (ICLA) to serve as president for 2009-10, succeeding Craig Westemeier, assistant athletics director of trademarks and licensing at the University of Texas.

“ICLA has become such a large part of the licensing profession over the past few years, it is an honor to be chosen to serve as its President,” stated Lochbaum. “Craig did an outstanding job of leading our association over the past year and I look forward to building upon that success over the next year.”

Also elected to serve ICLA for the 2009-10 term were 1st Vice President Shane Hinckley, assistant vice president, business development at Texas A&M University; 2nd Vice President Maggie Huckaba, director, trademark licensing at Vanderbilt University; and 3rd Vice President/Secretary David Wilson, trademark licensing director at Purdue University.

ICLA’s Board of Directors includes the following Dawn Brown, licensing coordinator at Jansport, Inc.; Brett Eden, director, marketing and licensing auxiliary services at the University of Utah; Trey Ham, licensing manager at Gear for Sports; Brian Hommel, director trademark licensing at Louisiana State University; Marty Ludwig, director, trademarks and licensing at the University of Cincinnati; Mike Ross, licensing director at Top of the World; Marybeth Schmutz, assistant director - trademark license program at Rutgers University; and Scott Stevenson, creative community directors/trademark licensing coordinator at the University of California Davis.

About ICLA: ICLA provides educational and networking opportunities, enhancement of acceptable operating standards and ethics, and establishment of the overall prestige and understanding of the profession of collegiate licensing. For more information on ICLA, please visit www.iclanet.com.  ICLA is administered by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), which is in its 45th year. For more information on NACDA and the 11 professional associations that fall under its umbrella, please visit www.nacda.com.