You will be welcomed to Automation OC by Don Zee at the Stage in the Exhibit Hall at 12:00 noon
just prior to the opening of the exhibits at 12:10 pm.
Each attendee will receive an additional free raffle ticket.
Donald Zee is the 60th president of ISA – The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society. Don joined
the ISA Orange County Section in 1977. He has served as the ISA Orange County Sections’ president twice,
past president, treasurer, and programs chair. He was also the publicity chair for the ISA/94 and ISA/91>
Conference and Exhibition in Anaheim. He is currently a member of the Society’s Finance Committee, Investment
Committee, and Honors and Awards Committee. He has served as District 11 vice president, chairman of the Council
of District Vice Presidents, and general chairman of the ISA TECH/97 Host Committee. He served on the Executive
Board and Executive Committee as treasurer of the Society from 1998 to 2002.He received the 1998 Distinguished
Society Service Award. In 1994 the ISA Orange County section created the “Don Zee Award” to acknowledge his
contributions to the Section and Society. The Don Zee Award is presented annually to a section member making
significant contributions to ISA, the ISA Orange County Section, or industry.
Don is president of Don Zee Associates, an executive search and placement management-consulting firm based in
Laguna Beach, California, which he founded in 1975. He was the West Coast Sales manager for The Foxboro Company’s
Digital Systems Division, and spent the 60s initially as a project engineer, then as sales application engineer,
at E.I. DuPont De Nemours in Delaware, New York, and Tennessee. He earned his B.S. in mechanical engineering from
Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania , and completed courses toward an MBA at the University of Delaware.
