IVODGA - Key Persons


Ana Diaz

Job Titles:
  • Regulatory Compliance Specialist
Ana joined IVODGA in March 2023 as a Regulatory Compliance Specialist and Instructor. She delivers guidance, training, and auditing services for shippers and carriers offering, transporting, and delivering hazardous materials. Ana develops and coordinates training programs to support clients with regulatory updates and requirements for transporting dangerous goods by all modes: air, land, and water. Additionally, Ana reviews Safety Data Sheets, researches regulatory requirements, develops product classification reports, and answers comprehensive technical questions. Her expertise includes knowledge of international, domestic, and multi-modal dangerous goods regulations.

Anne Barry

Job Titles:
  • Director, Marketing and Communications
Anne Barry is the Director, Marketing and Communications for IVODGA. Anne works with the Administrators to develop and implement member retention and recruitment campaigns, meeting promotions and coordination, and assists with member initiatives. In this role, she is also responsible for the following:

Beata Hart

Job Titles:
  • Standards Specialist, Directly (

Christine M. Yakush

Job Titles:
  • Administrator

Drew Watts

Job Titles:
  • Regulatory Compliance Specialist
Drew provides technical expertise to IVODGA members as a staff liaison and represents the Trade Associations at international meetings. He identifies issues and areas where Trade Association involvement can help members by reducing member expenses and updating regulations to streamline processes.

Frank Lopez

Job Titles:
  • Regulatory Compliance Specialist

Gena Shaffer

Job Titles:
  • Director, Regulatory Compliance

Julie Prescott

Job Titles:
  • DGSA Sr. Regulatory Compliance Specialist
  • Regulatory Compliance Specialist

Laurie West

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Coordinator
Laurie West is the Administrative Coordinator for IVODGA. Her primary responsibility is to provide administrative support to the company's office activities - answers the telephone, processes regulatory book orders and meeting registrations, maintains the regulatory book inventory, updates member records, works with database and accounting software. She works closely with the operations team and regulatory compliance staff to gather and send appropriate training materials to training courses. Along with preparing training materials she assembles, ships, and tracks the regulatory books needed for training. Laurie sees the training projects through to completion to ensure client satisfaction; handles and delivers course wrap-ups to include invoicing, thank you notes, completion certificates and final student list. She has 20+ years of experience in the support function with many large companies in the benefit, personal lines insurance, and education industries. Her primary responsibility is to provide administrative support to the office activities which include processing book orders and meeting registrations, manage existing and entering new member records into database and accounting software, and maintain inventory of books.

Rodolfo Koria Maynez

Job Titles:
  • Regulatory Compliance Specialist

Tom Ferguson

Job Titles:
  • Administrator & Chief Regulatory Compliance Officer