Ken Root

Ken draws on 23 years of business experience predominantly focused on business-to-business consultative development, operations management, membership, marketing, and new program creation. Seven of those years were focused on the franchise industry working for two national franchisors where he developed two innovative opportunities to help franchisees hit the ground running and grow exponentially. Ken was the Director of Membership and Strategic Relations at SBAM where he has spent six years creating new programs and services to expand on the growing small businesses in the state. His responsibilities included running the SBAM Leadership Council, SBAM Strategic Partnership Program, identifying new partnership opportunities across the state as well as all other member-related services. He was recognized as an emerging leader in 2014, was the recipient of the New Emerging Leader award from the MSAE in 2014 and his Leadership Council won the Silver Award for member engagement in 2015. He spent five years at Ngage Management working on Membership, Marketing, Operations, and Technology prior to joining the Society of Breast Imaging as the Membership and Volunteer Relations manager.