The IEEE is a large organization of members, volunteers, and staff facing ongoing challenges in a complex, ever-changing, global environment.  There is a natural cycle in technical advancement that we must support and nurture within the IEEE.  As engines for technical advances, the IEEE Societies, large and small, represent not only the technical interests of our members but also the technical specialties needed by the world.  The Societies are also the sources of the enthusiastic volunteers and the personal relationships which are the IEEE. 

The Board of Directors must be comprised of professionals who respect the hardworking volunteers and staff, who can take on the challenges and problems of the Institute with vision, decisiveness, and hard work, who challenge all of the IEEE organizations to improve daily, and who respect the diversities that make the Institute stronger.

Most of all, as Delegate/Director, I will not forget that what we do today ensures that the hard work of our volunteers will make a better world for all of society.