Joe DeCosmo, vice president of analysis and consulting services at Allant Group, takes over Aug. 10 as the 51st president of the Chicago Association of Direct Marketing.
The 40-year-old executive in June sold DeCosmo and Associates, a data mining and market research firm, to Allant, Naperville, IL. He became a CADM member in 1997, joining the board of directors in 2002. He was general chair of CADM's recent DM Days & Expo show.
CADM is one of the nation's largest regional direct marketing associations.