The Risk and Insurance Management Society announced that Joseph Restoule will take the helm as president for the 2009 term, effective Jan. 1. Restoule is leader of risk management at NOVA Chemicals Corporation.

Restoule has served on RIMS board of directors since 2001 in various capacities, including vice president and secretary. He is also president of the Canadian-based William H. McGannon Foundation, a member of the founding board of Governors of the Institute of Risk Management and often lectures at the University of Calgary.

Joining Restoule as officers on RIMS 2009 board of directors are Terry Fleming, director of the division of risk management at Montgomery County, MD, who will serve as vice president; John Phelps, director of business risk solutions at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, who will serve as treasurer; and Scott Clark, risk and benefits officer at Miami-Dade County Public Schools, who will serve as secretary.

Newly elected members of the board are Robert Cartwright Jr., loss prevention manager, Bridgestone Retail Operations, LLC; and Frederick Savage, director of risk management, Chevron Corporation.