Kenneth A. (Ken) Doyle, an association executive with more than four decades of experience, this month stepped into the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the Solar Electric Power Association. As COO, Doyle joins the nonprofit’s executive leadership team and provides oversight in programs and meetings, finance, operations, marketing, membership, human resources, and management information systems.

Doyle served for 34 years as the Executive Vice President and CEO of the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America (SIGMA), the trade association representing the interests of America’s leading fuel marketers.

Most recently, he was President of Doyle Association Consulting, LLC, an association consulting firm.

“We are pleased to welcome an association executive with Ken’s experience and expertise to SEPA,” said, Julia Hamm, the organization’s President and CEO. “Ken has an impressive list of accomplishments that will strengthen SEPA’s continuing efforts to advance the use of clean, sustainable electricity in an energy marketplace that is undergoing dramatic change.”

Doyle currently serves as chair of the National Association Executive Forum and is a Fellow of the American Society of Association Executives. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona and is a Certified Association Executive.