Darcy Davidsmeyer, President/CEO, Illinois Performance Excellence Darcy leads Illinois Performance Excellence, a 501(c)(3) organization, which is modeled after the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, offering organizations from any sector awareness, training and assessment in the deployment the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence, a leading edge framework of validated management practices. Prior to joining Illinois Performance Excellence in January of 2011, Darcy was Director, Government Affairs, for Motorola, a global leader in wireless and broadband communications technologies, and a Baldrige Award Recipient in 1988 and its Commercial, Government & Industrial Solutions Sector business unit was a Baldrige Award Recipient in 2002. For more than 22 years, her responsibilities included representing the company’s business and legislative interests in 50 states with a concentration on policy in the areas of telecommunications, economic development, procurement, taxation and environment. Darcy also worked at the Illinois Association of Realtors, as assistant director of government affairs, in Springfield, Illinois. Early in her career, Darcy worked for the Illinois Senate General Assembly Staff as a budget and revenue legislative analyst and under the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Act, Illinois Region 14, as director of a regional grant office. Darcy lives in Kildeer, Illinois, with her husband, Ray Morin.

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