Welcome to the International Association of Torch Clubs where you are invited to share your knowledge, your experience and your perspective with other professionals in an ideal social setting.

We are a highly interactive organization where members participate and discuss stimulating subjects ranging from current events, historical significance, folklore and much more. Our members are professionals with a broad range of experience creating knowledge expansion with diverse view points.

Membership not only includes idea generating presentations but outstanding atmospheres to freely exchange questions, concepts, views and interaction. Each club chooses its own unique venue, happy hours and dinner meeting program.

Clubs and members are connected through our International newsletter, magazine and annual convention. All presentations are eligible to be published in our peer reviewed magazine publication, The Torch. Conventions are sponsored by local clubs showcasing new areas of the country each year.

Our vast organization has clubs in both the United States and Canada and is growing in cities everywhere! 
Click here to preview one of
​the past editions of The Torch magazine.

Meet Our Executive Board Members

Sue Breen-Held
President
With over thirty years  of financial services experience specifically in defined benefit pension consulting, Sue brings a full breadth of business best practices and management to the International Association of Torch Clubs. She is frequently an industry speaker, involved in defined benefit legislative support and a published author.
Sue's specialties include consulting with single-employer defined benefit plans around funding and accounting decisions, clear and concise communication of complex information, research and support for legislative and regulatory positions and influencing conversations and leading successful communication and operational project teams from design to delivery.
Art Bloom
​Vice President 
A graduate of Washington & Lee University, Art began his career as an investment counselor and municipal bond trader. Wachovia Bank recruited him to serve as retail advertising manager prior to moving to joining his family’s business as President of Bloom Brothers Furniture. He returned to Winston-Salem to become a partner with Horn Stronach Bloom and in 2000, he founded The Bloom Agency, a successful marketing, advertising and PR firm. As a certified business coach and private board facilitator, he helped others grow their businesses and develop effective succession plans. In 2016, he assumed the two-year role as Chief Operating Officer for the Winston-Salem Symphony. Art currently serves in leadership roles on the Arbor Acres Board, UNCSA Foundation Board, Piedmont Triad JDRF, Piedmont Opera, Senior Services and Winston-Salem Torch club. He is also a member of the Reynolda Rotary. He has held leadership positions with the Winston-Salem Youth Chorus, Piedmont Wind Symphony, Interfaith Winston-Salem, and Little Theater of Winston Salem. Art is a certified personal fitness trainer and has competed in triathlons and bike races. He enjoys hiking, white water kayaking and rock climbing and is a frequent vocal soloist, musical theater performer and pianist.
Paul Freiberg
Treasurer & Director At Large
Paul Freiberg and Karen live in the Appleton, Wisconsin area. Paul is the immediate past president of the Fox Valley Torch club and now serves as Treasurer of the International Association of Torch Clubs. In addition to Torch activities, Paul is a manufacturing executive and a distinguished Toastmaster and has been a featured speaker to national industry trade organizations. Paul enjoys mountain hiking and visiting libraries during his travels.
Dwight Williams
​Secretary & Region 6 Director
International Association of Torch Clubs, Inc.  •  PO Box 20130, Columbus, OH 43220​ •  Email: iatcmainoffice@gmail.com  

​Phone: 314-517-8571