SPIE CEO Kent Rochford to retire after nine years
Kent Rochford joined SPIE as CEO in 2018. With his leadership, the organisation expanded event and publication activities, increased community support programmes and built an endowment matching programme (Image: SPIE)
Rochford will leave in February 2027, giving a SPIE Search Committee “ample time” to select the organisation’s next CEO
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