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Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and Executive Committee 2009 Executive Committee Dear Chamber of Commerce Investors, Community Leaders and Friends: You’ve probably heard the saying “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” For the founders of successful small businesses, one thing is for sure: they had a vision. They also likely had some combination of other attributes which helped them become successful – mentoring, a sound business plan, resources, luck, “sticktuitiveness”, and the list goes on. Fortunately, small businesses represent a critical element of any community’s economy. In the Huntsville area, our small businesses each have their own unique situation, while collectively they generate a major impact on our regional economy. Because small businesses are so important, most communities offer some form of assistance to start-up and existing small businesses. Most prominent among the small business services of the Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison County is our annual Small Business Awards Celebration, which happens to be one of our largest events in terms of attendance, but when it comes to excitement, is unmatched by anything else we do. This edition of Initiatives is dedicated to the many small businesses which make the Huntsville area home, and is timed with our annual Small Business Awards Celebration, scheduled for September 1 at the Von Braun Center. Pictured on the front cover is Jan Smith of S 3 , Inc., our 2008 recipient of the Chamber’s Entrepreneur of the Year award. We encourage you to watch very closely Huntsville’s growing role in foreign military sales (FMS). As a result of the most recent Base Realignment & Closure process, the headquarters of the United States Army Security Assistance Command (USASAC) is relocating to Redstone Arsenal, and with it, the role of the Huntsville area as an active player in international business markets continues to grow. You can read more about USASAC/FMS beginning on page 23. Also in this Initiatives is an update article on BRAC, and special stories on Huntsville’s attractiveness to young professionals (YPs), Teledyne Brown Engineering and Intuitive Research. In our economic development highlights section you’ll find updates on Analytical Services, Applied Data Trends, Draper Laboratory and Dynetics, among others. Whether they are now large or still small, each of the companies listed above began as a small business, each planning wisely and working hard to achieve success. Please join us on September 1 at the Von Braun Center as we celebrate the achievements of these and many other small businesses who did know where they wanted to go, and made the right decisions to get there! Brian Hilson President & CEO Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison County Irma Tuder, Chair, Analytical Services Don Nalley, Chair-Elect, Beason & Nalley Evans Quinlivan, Immediate Past Chair Tommy Beason, Chamber Foundation Chair, retired Jan Smith, Secretary/Treasurer, System Studies and Simulation Charlie Kettle, Vice Chair - Economic Development, First Commercial Bank Linda Maynor, Vice Chair - Governmental Affairs, Maynard, Cooper & Gale Ron Poteat, Vice Chair - Investor Relations, Regions Bank Joe Alexander, Vice Chair - Workforce, Camber Corporation Beth Martin, Vice Chair - Small Business Jeremiah Knight, Vice Chair - Research & Info. Services, Verizon Wireless Elizabeth Morard, Vice Chair - Image Development, Qualis Corporation Mayor Tommy Battle, Chair-Appointed, City of Huntsville Jim Bolte, Chair-Appointed, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama Chairman Mike Gillespie, Chair-Appointed, Madison Co. Commission Joe Ritch, Chair-Appointed, Sirote & Permutt Brian Hilson, President/CEO, Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison Co. Elected Board Cynthia Achorn, ASRC Federal Clayton Bass, Huntsville Museum of Art Penny Billings, BancorpSouth Frank Caprio, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings Derrick Copeland, Applied Data Trends Elizabeth Dotts, Public FA Tracy Doughty, Huntsville Hospital John Eagan, Wachovia Bank Joe Fadool, Continental AG Kerry Fehrenbach, Intergraph Corporation Ron Gray, Gray Research Jeff Hamilton, The Orthopaedic Center Tom Hancock, Booz Allen Hamilton John Holly, Lockheed Martin Corporation Tharon Honeycutt, MSB Analytics Dr. Pam Hudson, Crestwood Medical Center Tony Jones, The Boeing Company Frederick Lanier, J. Smith Lanier & Co. Frank Libutti, Pegasus John McMullan, BancorpSouth Dan Montgomery, Northrop Grumman Caroline Myers, Foreign Language Services Joe Newberry, Redstone Federal Credit Union Tony Palumbo, Raytheon Company Pete Schofield, Cobham Analytic Solutions Crystal Shell, WILL Technology Todd Slyman, Village of Providence Keith Smith, SAIC Dr. O’Neal Smitherman, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology David Spillers, Huntsville Hospital Tom Stanton, ADTRAN Sandra Steele, Enfinger Steele Development Al Sullivan, ABT Dr. Dave Williams, UAHuntsville John Wilmer, Wilmer & Lee Danny Windham, Digium Dr. Ernie Wu, ERC 8 August 2009 Initiatives
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