Meet the Staff
Your advocates in the industrial community
Dave Gering has been the MIC’s Executive Director since 1999 and the TMA’s Executive Director since its creation. In 1996, he was the lead author and researcher for the "King County Council Report to the Public: Family Wage Job Base", which provided the defining analysis for creation of the manufacturing industrial center strategy for King County under the Growth Management Act. He has served on too many committees and stakeholders groups to enumerate, but was a Co-Chair of the King County Commission on Governance in 2003-04.
Mr. Gering was the Communication Director for the King County Council from 1989 through 1994 after working 12 years as a journalist for Seattle-based publications including the Seattle Times. No coincidence, he is also the editor of the Seattle Industry magazine, a periodical published by the Manufacturing Industrial Council.
Marilyn Young Skogland has been with the MIC since 2005. She takes the lead in assuring that the programs of the organizations are performed in accordance with the requirements of the contract or grant under which they were awarded. She was appointed to WSDOT’s Commute Trip Reduction Board by the Governor in 2006 on behalf of the MIC’s sister organization, the Duwamish TMA. She also manages the Seattle First industrial retention program co-sponsored by the MIC and the City of Seattle.
Prior to joining the staff of the MIC, Ms. Young Skogland was a member of the MIC’s Executive Board representing Ederer LLC, a 106 year old crane manufacturing firm located in Seattle. Her background in industrial business in Seattle, especially manufacturing, are informed by her 18 years working for Ederer LLC in a variety of roles including managing human resources, contract compliance, purchasing, as Safety Officer and the Chief Operations Officer.
Pam Romine has been with the MIC since 2005. She is the helping hands for everything that runs through the office. She is the lead on all forms of communication; eBulletins, Websites and Mailings. She is our event coordinator as well as accounting/office manager.
Prior to joining the MIC, Ms Romine was lead Interior Designer at Bank & Office Interiors, Tacoma and worked at Boeing for 10 years in the facilities division and the computer field. Ms Romine’s life experiences give her well rounded understanding and abilities for anything the MIC can throw at her.
Susan Garber-Yonts has spent 20+ years in the field of transportation demand management (TDM), policy and public outreach. Her range of experience is diverse including the CA State Senate as a legislative analyst and as a planner at the CA State Department of Transportation developing and implementing comprehensive employer sponsored TDM programs and working within CEQA and NEPA Policy. Ms Garber-Yonts served as the TDM specialist in the creation, development and adoption of the Eugene/Springfield Metropolitan Area Transportation Plan Update. She was an active leader in public involvement, data gathering, marketing, policy/legislative analysis and the coordination of multi-jurisdictional agency activities. Her facilitation skills served her well as lead staff for taskforce members in the community stakeholder process leading to the adoption of the Update. She led the City effort in creating the first ETC network of employers in the City of Corvallis and worked as a consultant for 16 years with both the City of Corvallis and Benton County, serving on the City’s Parking and Planning Commission.
Ms Garber-Yonts relocated to Seattle in 2006 and brings her experience and skills to Seattle. She continues to build strong relationships at all levels, using extensive public outreach skills with stakeholder groups in leading group goal setting projects . She has extensive contacts with Seattle-area transportation stakeholders - from neighborhood levels to all levels of local jurisdictions - making her invaluable for consensus building and the marketing of TDM in the local area.
If you have any questions please call Dave Gering, Executive Director, at (206)762-2470.
