GUY H. FISHER Club Development Manager
As member of the Professional Handlers Association (PHA), the AKC Registered Handlers Program and the Dog Handlers Guild (DHG), Guy H. Fisher has enjoyed a successful han- dling career highlighted partly by the campaigns of several top dogs in their respective breeds and by numerous Best in Show wins. He also became a licensed AKC Judge of Junior Showman- ship. Guy continued the tradition with the help of his children, Taylor, Jack- lyn, Joshua and Samantha. Participating in the Jr. Handlers Program, as well as assisting Guy, has instilled a love of the sport into the whole Fisher family. Guy handled and finished championships in all seven groups and has had top twenty contenders in many of them. In June of 2014, Guy came to work for the American Kennel Club as an Executive Field Representative. His involvement in all breed kennel clubs covers a full range of all offices, as well as show chairman. He was, and still is, an active member of his national breed clubs and all breed clubs that he and his family have participated in before. In December of 2016, Guy accepted the position of Club Development Manager and is looking forward to helping any club with their needs. Doug Ljungren emphasized, “Cre- ating an organizational champion for clubs will provide the resources and focus that is consistent with the impor- tance that clubs have to our future. If your club is facing challenges or is seek- ing advice, please feel free to contact the Club Development Department at ClubDevelopment@akc.org.” AKC has answered a huge need for clubs! What a way to begin our New Year! Hope yours will be the best ever!
“ ‘WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO RESPOND AND PROVIDE RELEVANT EXAMPLES AND GIVE CLUBS OPTIONS.’ ”
GLENN LYCAN Director of Event Operations Support
added the customer service department to his list of duties, adding the respon- sibility of close to 500,000 communica- tions per year and quadrupling the staff reporting to him. After a couple more years, in 2015, Lycan came full circle back to the job he originally sought in 2002, Director of Events Operations Support. His job function is to support his Co-Director, Alan Slay, and provide additional sup- port for Superintendents and Clubs. A natural step to support clubs was to cre- ate a department specifically designed to help clubs succeed. Now the AKC has added the Club Development Department to the events division and named Lycan Head of the Department, along with his event support duties. Glenn feels passionately about meet- ing clubs’ needs. Here’s what he had to say, “The main point I want to come across is that we are here to help clubs; no question is wrong. We will do our best to respond and provide relevant examples and give clubs options. If the question needs to be reviewed by a dif- ferent department, we will handle get- ting it to the right group and making sure it gets answered.”
Ljungren said, “The head of the Club Development Department will be Glenn Lycan, Director of Event Operations Support. Working with Glenn will be Guy Fisher, Club Development Manager.” A second generation member of the sport, Glenn Lycan’s family was already involved with Samoyeds when he was born. The first AKC event he attended was in 1967 in Illinois. Throughout his youth his parents bred Samoyeds. Glenn was their kennel boy. After several years of caring and showing Samoyeds and friends’ dogs of various breeds, he went to work for Houston and Toddie Clark. When the Clarks retired in the mid 80s, Glenn and his wife, Rebecca, moved to Griffin, Georgia and opened a kennel and handling business. They joined the Griffin Kennel Club and became active members. During those years, they would attend an average of 140 shows a year. In 2002 Glen was hired by the AKC as the Associate Director of Special Ser- vices, the subject matter experts for the AKC. After a year, he was promoted to the Director of the Companion Animal Recovery affiliate for the AKC (CAR at the time, nowReunite). In 2004 he came back to AKC to run the Case Manage- ment (compliance side of registration) and DNA departments (registration verification and business to consumer product services). These two depart- ments account for over 100,000 com- munications a year. In 2012, the AKC
“AKC HAS ANSWERED A HUGE NEED FOR CLUBS! WHAT A WAY TO BEGIN OUR NEW YEAR!”
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