Deryck M.S. Omar, CEO for the CARICOM Regional Organization for Standards and Quality, has joined ASTM International board of directors for 3-year term. As CEO, Omar focuses on modernizing and accelerating the preparation, adoption, and use of regional standards to increase trade, boost industrial efficiency and effectiveness, and further the cause of the CARICOM single market and economy. From 2007 to 2013, Omar led the Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards as executive director.