The International Colored Gemstone Association (ICA) has appointed industry veteran Doug Hucker as CEO, to succeed Gary Roskin.Hucker was the CEO of the American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) for the past 24 years, before leaving in March. He has also served on the boards of a number of industry.
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Gem dealer Jean Claude Michelou (pictured), who founded
InColor magazine and served as its editor-in-chief for 17 years, died of COVID-19 on May 3, according to a LinkedIn post from the International Colored Gemstone Association (ICA).
A graduate of the London School of International Business, Michelou started in the industry selling emeralds in Colombia in 1977.
“I was a young executive at an American multinational corporation,” he said in an August 2020 webinar, “and I was traveling to Colombia often, and I fell really in love with emeralds, and with a Colombian woman. And I did it, I just decided that I had to leave my job, and I had to live in Colombia.