ASCM Names Usher Its New CEO
Global business executive and association leader Elizabeth Usher, MBA, is the next CEO of the Association for Supply Chain Management, effective December 1, 2026. ASCM leaders selected Usher following a comprehensive search led by ASCM's board of directors in partnership with executive search firm Vetted Solutions.
Usher brings more than 20 years of executive leadership experience spanning global healthcare businesses and associations. She joins ASCM from the American Academy of Dermatology. There, as chief executive officer and executive director, she led substantial and sustained revenue growth since 2020 while strengthening member value and transforming operations. Earlier in her career, she held executive commercial and general management roles at the College of American Pathologists and GE Healthcare/Amersham Health, with profit and loss and commercial responsibility across global businesses in cancer treatment, molecular imaging, and surgical imaging, as well as executive oversight of the operations and supply chain capabilities critical to their performance.
Usher succeeds outgoing CEO Abe Eshkenazi, CSCP, CPA, CAE, who served in the role for 20 years.