Terry Cassaday, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ergoCentric Inc, was elected to the BIFMA Board of Directors at the January meeting.
ergoCentric Inc. was established in 1990 has manufacturing plants in Mississauga, Ontario and St. Louis, Missouri. Terry has been instrumental in designing the company’s extensive line of ergonomic seating systems and to date has over 20 patents and patents-pending. He is a member of the technical committee that drafted CSA Z412-17, Office Ergonomics – an application standard for workplace ergonomics. Terry holds a Bachelor of Law from the University of Western Ontario.
BIFMA President & CEO, Deirdre Jimenez AIA NCIDQ, welcomed the election of Cassaday to the board. “Terry will bring both a US and Canadian perspective to the association as we embark on growing our membership in both countries. ergoCentric has been active in the association, devoting talent and expertise in the development of a new ANSI/BIFMA Ergonomic standard currently in development.”
About BIFMA
BIFMA is the leading non-profit furniture trade association in North America with members from around the world. Founded from the call to define uniform product standards for the industry, BIFMA has served as the voice of the commercial furniture industry since 1973 and is now the recognized source for refining, managing, and developing furniture standards that embody safety, ergonomics, health, sustainability, and performance that support buyer and specifier communities in making informed furniture selection decisions.
BIFMA further supports the industry providing market data, thought leadership, and industry outreach celebrating design and innovation in recognition of the significance furnishings play in the places we learn, work, heal, and live through product registries, sustainability certification, statistics reporting, government relations, industry promotion, education, networking, and trade development programs.