MDNA Elects New President

Kim Khoury of member firm Action Machinery Co., Inc. (Bethlehem, PA) was elected as the second female president of the Machinery Dealers National Association (MDNA; Alexandria, VA) during their 74th Annual Business Meeting & Convention held in the Historic Renaissance Mayflower Hotel (Washington, DC) on April 23-26.

Notable awards presented during the president’s banquet included the MDNA Lifetime Achievement Award going to the Association’s first ever female president (1999-2001) Jeannine Harris, of member firm Harris Machine Tools, and the Earl Elman Distinguished Service Award going to Kristine Conroy, the president of the Austin D. Lucas Scholarship Fund. The Austin D. Lucas Scholarship Fund raised $30,000 during this year’s convention through the annual Ray Roberts Raffle.

Special guest speakers during the convention’s programming included representatives from BB&T Wealth, speaking on Business Transition Planning, Capital Markets, Equipment Finance; National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) speaking on Tax Legislative Updates; and the Office of Inspector General of the Export-Import Bank of the United States speaking on Trade Finance & Export Fraud Schemes: Protecting Your Business.

Convention sponsors this year were Direct Capital Corp., Machinery International Corp., LOCATOR Services, Inc., Young Guns, Liquidity Services, F. L . Sales Inc., National Machinery Exchange, Inc., Surplus Record, BB&T Wealth, Harris Machine Tools, Inc., Charleston Annex Corp. / Asset Sales, Inc., Yoder Machinery Co., Wisconsin Metalworking Machinery, Inc., Bid Spotter, Inc., MDNA Chicago Chapter, AMEA, Prestige Equipment Corp., MDNA Philadelphia Chapter, Action Machinery Co. Inc., C. W. Wood Machinery Inc., Federal Equipment Div./PME Technologies Inc., F. P. Miller Co., Lee Stevens Machinery Inc., Universal Metalworking Equipment Inc., Yeoman Machinery Corporation, A&A Machinery Sales Inc., Clark Machinery Sales, LLC, Centra Corporation, Easton Machinery Inc., FH Machinery, Hildebrand Machinery Co. Inc., JBM Technologies Inc., Norman Machine Tool, Ltd., Quaker City Auctioneers Inc., Weiss Machine (MDNA Premier Vendor), Wm. F. Comly & Son, Inc.

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