ABC announces search for day-to-day replacement for founder Blumenthal
American Botanical Council founder Mark Blumenthal said he plans to step back into a more advisory role as the organization seeks a new Executive Director. NutraIngredients-USA photo.
“Just to clarify, I’m not leaving,” Blumenthal told NutraIngredients-USA.
“I’ll still be around as someone who can provide institutional memory.”
Blumenthal noted that ABC has grown tremendously since he founded the nonprofit platform in 1988. The original purpose was to provide greater support for the newsletter he was already publishing under the aegis of ABC’s progenitor, the Herb Research Foundation.
“It was a newsletter we created on a typewriter and pasted it up with glue sticks,” Blumenthal said.