PURPOSE:

Strategic planning (3-5 year plans); defining organizational priorities, values, and goals.
External Issues: discuss industry and association trends, threats, and opportunities. Serve as a forum to identify,
debate, and define direction, forward-thinking to ensure that organizational energy, resources, competencies, and
creativity are utilized to HI’s maximum advantage.
Establishing policies and procedures for the proper operation of the Institute.
Executive Director selection, retention, and compensation.

SCOPE:

Mission, Goals and Key Strategies of Hydraulic Institute
Constitution & Bylaws, Corporate Policies and Procedures for HI governance
Ensuring adequate financial, staff and volunteer resources to accomplish HI’s mission, goals & key strategies
Providing leadership support to key committees to accomplish annual HI goals

BOARD MEMBERS

Chairman
DeLancey Davis, Chairman
Headwater Companies

President
Brian Sweeney, President
Crane Pumps & Systems

Class of 2021

Scott King, Vice-President
Gorman-Rupp, Mansfield Division

Christopher Wiseman, President, Commercial and Industrial Motors and Drives
Nidec Motor Corporation

Class of 2022

Karl Buscher, President
PSG Dover

H.J. (Howard) Dewes, Director, W&WW Segment, Drive
*ABB LV Drives US*

Rob Phillips, Vice President - Global Engineering
Flowserve Corporation

Class of 2023

Don Kenney, President, North America Water Systems
Franklin Electric

Stan Knecht, VP Engineering and Product Management
ITT

Brian Edwards, Managing Director Legal Entity SPUSA
Sulzer Pumps USA

Class of 2024

Kerby Pope, President/General Manager
Patterson Pump Company, Mansfield Division

Jeff DeVaul, COO and President
Leistritz Advanced Technologies Corp.

Tryg Dahl, VP of Technology
*Intelliquip*

VICE-PRESIDENTS (Non-voting advisory positions)

Vice President, Technical Affairs
Jack Claxton, VP of Engineering
Patterson Pump Company

Vice President, Member Services
Randy Bennett, VP of Technology and Operations
Leistritz

Vice President, Government Affairs
Mark Chaffee, VP, Governmental Affairs & Sustainability
TACO, Inc.

Vice President, Education
Jim Swetye, Technical Training Manager
Grundfos

Vice President, Certification
Christopher Johnson, Sr. Director of Product Engineering
Xylem- Applied Water Systems

PAST PRESIDENTS - EX OFFICIO

John Kahren, President & Owner
SPP Pumps

George Harris, President and CEO
Hydro, Inc.

Albert F. Huber, President
Patterson Pump Company

John P. Miersma, President and CEO
Iwaki America Incorporated

John H. White, Jr., CEO
TACO, Inc.