Dick Eassom

Dick Eassom is Vice President of Corporate Support at SMA, Inc., leading and providing a variety of support functions to headquarters personnel and field associates, including client proposals and presentations, and website design and content management. He has held numerous roles since joining SMA (then SM&A) as a field associate proposal professional in 1998, including Vice President of Information Technology and Knowledge Management, Director of Project Management, and Director

of Product Development and Operations Support.

Mr. Eassom has over 25 years of experience developing winning international proposals in Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the USA. Dick is a Certified Fellow of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) and served on the APMP international Board of Directors as Secretary, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Executive Officer. He was co-chair of APMP international annual conferences in 2007 and 2011, and he continues to serve APMP as Past Chair for the APMP California Chapter. APMP inducted Dick as a Fellow in 2004, and recognized his contributions to the organization in 2009 with the William

C. McRea Founders Award.