Bob O’Gorman is the President of the Automotive Lift Institute (ALI). With the retirement of Chic Fox in April 2005, R.W. “Bob” O’Gorman was appointed as ALI president and CEO. Within his first year, the association’s offices were relocated from Indialantic, FL to Cortland, NY. In the years to follow,  a path of continual process improvement would lead to other changes including: revision of the Constitution and By-Laws, expansion of the Institute’s safety focus, the addition of full-time technical staff to better support the membership and ALI’s growing safety message, development of ALI’s online safety course for lift operators, and launching ALI ‘s Inspector Certification Program .

With the retirement of Chic Fox in April 2005, R.W. “Bob” O’Gorman was appointed as ALI president and CEO. Within his first year, the association’s offices were relocated from Indialantic, FL to Cortland, NY. In the years to follow,  a path of continual process improvement would lead to other changes including: revision of the Constitution and By-Laws, expansion of the Institute’s safety focus, the addition of full-time technical staff to better support the membership and ALI’s growing safety message, development of ALI’s online safety course for lift operators, and launching ALI ‘s Inspector Certification Program .

ALI was established in 1945 by nine U.S. car lift manufacturers who came together to work for the industry’s common good. ALI’s original members were concerned about the limited availability of steel and other raw materials that remained under government allocation in the aftermath of World War II.

The focus on quality and safety that drove our founders to establish ALI 75 years ago remains the basis of our mission today: To promote the safe design, construction, installation, inspection, and use of automotive lifts. In keeping with ALI’s policies, ALI and the testing laboratories supporting the ALI Lift Certification Program do not supply, recommend, design, or manufacture lift products. As a commitment to remain impartial and free from any bias or conflict of interest, ALI does not allow commercial, financial,  or other pressures to compromise impartiality.