Direct Marketing Association president and CEO H. Robert Wientzen will retire next year, the DMA announced yesterday.
Wientzen, who will be 65 in August, said in a statement that he had promised his family he would retire at that age.
He set July 1 for his departure, but has agreed to serve until the end of 2004 to facilitate the transition. An executive search team made up of current and former DMA board members will choose a successor.