The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has unveiled a redesign of its upper management structure, adding for the first time a chief operating officer (COO) to oversee the day-to-day running of the association, as well as creating a new position to lead the AOPA Foundation, and filling the top spot in the association’s government affairs division.

Robert Moran, most recently president and CEO of the Ancora Group, LLC, has been named AOPA’s COO. Karen Gebhart, currently AOPA’s executive vice president of communications, will fill the newly created position of president of the AOPA Foundation, while Melissa Rudinger, vice president and assistant to the president, has been named senior vice president of government affairs, formalizing a role she has filled since earlier this year.

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