GMDC Names Spindler Director, Business Development

Apr 3, 2007 3:00 AM

COLORADO SPRINGS -- GMDC reported this week it has named Laurie Spindler director of business development. She will be based at the association‘s headquarters here, and will be responsible for education and research, consumer and business insights, and information resources. Spindler joins GMDC after running her own consulting firm, L&S Ventures, where she provided marketing and sales consulting, project leadership and management, and professional coaching and training services to her clients. Prior to starting her own firm, she worked for Arthur Andersen as senior consultant in its Revenue Enhancement Division. Laurie has extensive CPG marketing experience with the Pillsbury Co. Prior to Pillsbury she was with the Bank of Boston. Keith Wypyszynski, GMDC‘s vice president of business development/chief member officer, said Spindler‘s “experience in the consumer packaged goods industry, coupled with her background in consumer products, and leadership coaching and training, should greatly assist the association with our extensive plans for 2007 and beyond.”