Each the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) and American Gem Society (AGS) lately added new members to their respective boards.

GIA has added two new governors, and appointed a chair and vice chair to its board.

The 2 new governors are Russell Mehta (pictured at prime), managing director of Rosy Blue India, the big Indian diamond firm; and Lake Dai, a expertise professional and adjunct professor of utilized synthetic intelligence at Carnegie Mellon College.

Dai has additionally labored as a expertise enterprise investor and senior government main the product, engineering, and enterprise items at Alibaba and Yahoo! in addition to a number of tech startups.

As well as, Lisa Locklear, senior vp and chief monetary officer at Avanir Prescribed drugs and a governor since 2012, has been appointed GIA board chair. Stephen Kahler, senior adviser of strategic planning and enterprise improvement for business refrigeration tools producer Everidge and a governor since 2016, has been named its vice chair.

4 governors are retiring from the board: Dione Kenyon, the previous president and CEO of the Jewelers Board of Commerce and a former board chair; Thomas Insley, chief monetary officer of Dermata Therapeutics, and a former board vice chair; Barbara Sawrey, dean emerita and distinguished professor emerita on the College of California San Diego; and Elliot Tannenbaum, senior principal of Leo Schachter Diamond Group.

The American Gem Society (AGS) has appointed Sumit Dangi, world chief monetary officer and treasurer at Jewelers Mutual Group (JM), to its board. He joined JM in 2020.

Dangi replaces director at giant Jamie Luce, JM’s former government vp. Luce resigned from his board place in September when he left the trade. Dangi will probably be added to the AGS’s 2023 board slate for election in Might 2023.

Prime picture courtesy of Gemological Institute of America

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