The American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the world’s largest amateur radio member organization in with over 170,000 members, has hired Tom Gallagher as its new CEO. He starts on an interim basis on Feb. 29 at the Newington-based organization.
Gallagher will succeed David Sumner as the CEO of ARRL, effective April 18. Sumner announced last year that he would be stepping down at the end of May after 44 years on the ARRL headquarters staff, most of that time as CEO.
Gallagher joins ARRL following three decades as an international investment banker and financial services executive. His career has included senior leadership positions with JP Morgan Chase & Co and CIBC Oppenheimer & Co in New York, and with Wachovia Capital Markets in Charlotte, North Carolina. He has also served as an adjunct professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and as CEO of the Secondary School Admission Test Board in Princeton, New Jersey.
ARRL has memorandums of understanding with several organizations, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the National Weather Service (NWS), and many other groups. There are over 740,000 federally licensed radio amateurs in the United States, an all-time high.
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