Aaron Hobbs is the first full-time Executive Director of NACIA. Prior to joining NACIA, Hobbs served in numerous capacities, including as president of RISE, a trade association based in Washington, DC. He previously served as director of the National Assembly of Sportsmen’s Caucuses for the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, as well as an international trade economist and presidential management fellow with the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agriculture Service, and a resource economist with the USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service. He is married with three children.