EESF Names Jason Fisher Executive Director

The Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation (EESF) has named Jason Fisher executive director. Based in Fairhope, Alabama, Fisher is an accomplished nonprofit executive who grew up in eastern Iowa. He graduated from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with a double major in business administration and political science. He holds a master’s in public service from the University of Arkansas and a BS in operational meteorology from Mississippi State University. He is certified by Certified Fundraising Executive International. Fisher’s experience includes roles of increasing responsibility at educational consultancy RuffaloCODY, based in Cedar Rapids. There, he exceeded sales goals as a fundraising consultant and served as director of operations and project manager. As major gift development officer for Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, he was instrumental in obtaining more than US$25,000 in donations. He and his late wife were volunteers with the Chromosome 18 Registry and Research Society, a nonprofit composed primarily of parents of individuals with a chromosome 18 abnormality. He is planning to publish a memoir, To Where You Are, based on raising his special-needs daughter, this year.