Rick Brenner is ICPHSO's President and 2017 Symposium Planning Chair.   He is President of Product Safety Advisors LLC, a consulting firm expert at addressing supply chain challenges in product safety, compliance and social responsibility.  Mr. Brenner has been instrumental in establishing product safety awareness as a major objective for the $20 billion promotional products industry.  He was a founder of the non-profit Quality Certification Alliance (qcalliance.org) and served as chair of its compliance committee for seven years.  He is immediate past chair of the 11,000 member Promotional Products Association International (PPAI), a founding member of its Product Responsibility Action Group (PRAG) and co-chair PPAI’s Product Safety Summit for each of the past five years.  He has written extensively on product safety and compliance topics and is the author of the blog BrennerOnSafety.com.