WASHINGTON, D.C. — After more than 20 total years at the NAB, the association’s Head of Communications, Global Connections and Events will be exiting on February 21 to accept the role of Executive Director of the Congressional Club Museum and Foundation.
It’s “bittersweet news” for the U.S. broadcasting industry from Ann Marie Cumming, who rejoined the NAB in January 2011 after first joining the organization in 1994, with a post on the Government Relations team. In 1996, she moved to the Communications department, where she worked for five years and was promoted to Director of Media Relations. In this role, Cumming became a familiar figure across radio and TV, working alongside the now-retired Dennis Wharton.
Alex Siciliano is overseeing Communications for the NAB for now, and a head of communications for the NAB Show will be hired.
Cumming’s first stint at the NAB ended in 2001, when she departed only because her husband received a four-year assignment in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2007, she consulted the NAB in a big way — handling media relations and managing the newsroom at the NAB Show in Las Vegas before fully returning to the NAB just over 12 years ago, rising to SVP of Communications.
“It has been an amazing 20+ years at NAB, and it’s folks like you who helped make it such a great experience,” Cumming shared via e-mail. “It was an honor to serve the industry’s premier trade association in advocating for radio and television broadcasters and advancing [the] NAB Show, recognized the world over as the foremost convention for media, entertainment and technology.”
She also provided more insight into her new role at the Congressional Club Museum and Foundation, whose members include current and former spouses of members of Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court and the President’s Cabinet. The organization hosts the annual First Lady’s Luncheon, a time-honored tradition in Washington dating back 110 years.
Prior to first joining the NAB, Ann Marie Cumming worked on Capitol Hill for Sen. Patrick Leahy.
