Board of Directors
Honorary Member
Gary Shapiro
Managing President and CEO
Consumer Electronics Association
Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the U.S. trade association representing over 2000 consumer electronics companies and owning and producing the continent's largest annual trade show, the International CES.Shapiro is an active leader in the development, launch and marketing of HDTV. He has testified before Congress on HDTV and other technology and business issues more than 20 times. He co-founded and chaired the HDTV Model Station and has served as a leader of the Advanced Television Test Center (ATTC). He is a charter inductee to the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers, and in 2003 received its highest award as the industry leader most influential in advancing HDTV.
Shapiro has held many exhibition industry leadership posts, and in 2002, received the exhibition industry's highest honor, the IAEM Pinnacle Award. Shapiro also served until recently on the Board of Visitors of George Mason University, Virginia's largest university, and is a member of the board of directors of the Northern Virginia Technology Council.
Shapiro leads a staff of 150 employees and thousands of industry volunteers.
Prior to joining the association, Shapiro was an associate at the law firm of Squire, Sanders and Dempsey. He also has worked on Capitol Hill, as an assistant to a member of Congress. He received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with a double major in economics and psychology from the State University of New York, Binghamton.
He is married to Dr. Susan Malinowski, a retina surgeon
