RI Executives to host Kasim J. Yarn, Director of New RI Office of Veterans Affairs at July Meeting

RI Executives Assoc to Host Kasim J. Yarn, Director of RI Office of Veterans Affairs at its July Meeting

Kasim J. Yarn, Director of the State of RI Office of Veterans
Affairs will speak at the monthly meeting of the RI Executives
Association at The Greenwood Inn in Warwick, at noon on July 18th. There
is limited free seating available and lunch is included for those
interested in the Association, though registration is required.

Yarn, who was appointed to his new position in February of this year,
will talk about “Partnering” and will detail the new department’s
mission of “working together to ensure every veteran has an opportunity
to make it in Rhode Island”.

Yarn, who retired this year as a naval officer after more 20 years of
military service, began work in April heading the new department and is
a member of the Health and Human Services Secretariat. Originally from
Mississippi, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy at the age of 18, “to see the
world and serve my country”, he said. His first duty station was in
South Weymouth, Massachusetts, a time that began Yarn’s lifelong love of
New England. He was later stationed at Naval Station Newport, went to
Boston University, graduating in 2000 and shortly thereafter married his
wife, Rosaria. Yarn also received his commission as a naval officer
and was deployed aboard the USS Nashville in the Mediterranean area of
operations. He served in the Persian Gulf, was an instructor at the
Surface Warfare Officers School at Naval Station Newport, attended the
U.S. Naval War College earning a Master’s Degree in National Strategic
Studies. In 2007 Yarn was deployed with the Navy’s Sixth and Fifth
Fleets in increasing roles of responsibility. In July 2013, he returned
home to Rhode Island from deployment to become a faculty member at the
Naval War College. He and his family now live in North Kingstown.

The RI Executives Association is a category exclusive business leads
and networking group which is the oldest such group in RI. The
Association facilitates and maintains a continuous exchange of business
information among members and other business leaders, and does so in a
setting that encourages mutual cooperation, promotes trust, and fosters
improved efficiency and service, bringing together established business
owners and top-level executives to help them grow their businesses. With
chapters across the country, “Execs” also provides members with a
dependable supply source for products and services across nearly every
industry. In RI, the group meets for lunch every Tuesday.

Anyone interested in membership or to RSVP or for more information about
attending the July meeting, contact Nancy Thomas, at 401-447-8182,
nthomas@TapestryCommunications.com.