Thank you then Mayor (now US Representative, 9th District) Greg Stanton for being our keynote speaker in the main lobby of Phoenix City Hall as we launched Global Chamber® regional and globally. Hundreds of leaders attended including Mayor Stanton, Michael Patterson, Melissa Sanderson, Ambassador Roberto Rodriguez and and many more.
Also thanks to Senator Kyrsten Sinema for her support over the years, including helping us host Japanese Ambassador Fujisaki at Taliesin West in those early days. As U.S. Representative, Senator Sinema was a strong advocate for the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and fought tirelessly to extend it.
Thank you members for your leadership and success!
Thunderbird School of Global Management has also been a key inspiration and partner of Global Chamber® all along the way. Our relationship goes back further than 8 years with visits to the old Glendale Campus. On one in particular as the future founder I was in a meeting at the cafeteria in Glendale, and watching and listening to the global students passionately talking about global business and I dreamed that we need more of this, everywhere!
Another Thunderbird-inspired inflection point was the arrival on the scene of Dr. Sanjeev Khagram. In his first week as CEO-Dean he came to a Global Chamber Phoenix event, and we all respected and loved this brilliant global leader, a refugee from Uganda with Indian parents, who reimagined, revitalized, rejuvenated and reestablished Thunderbird as #1 🌎. Global and UNSTOPPABLE!
In our next phase we're building out our 525 chapters so that more leaders worldwide will become involved and experience global business, and have a better idea of the benefits of global trade.
With our vision of 525 chapters and 100,000 organizational members, we're continuing to grow our platform to support the growth of every size company around the world, to grow anywhere they wish, with lower risk and more success.
We're making business across metros and borders easier than growing across the street.
Global is good! The more people are communicating, listening, negotiating... the more we prosper and benefit, business and society.
Doug Bruhnke - founder/CEO at Global Chamber®
Global Chamber® is a growing and collaborating community of CEOs, executives and leaders in over 525 metro regions around the world, connecting member businesses to new opportunities for advancing growth and success. It's the only chamber of commerce in the world operating in hundreds of locations that helps exporting, importing and investing for members to connect through warm introductions to clients, partners, projects and resources.
Global Chamber® has been a registered trademark for Global Chamber LLC since 2014.
Originally published at https://www.globalchamber.org/blog/2024/03/01/global-chamber/happy-9th-anniversary-global-chamber/
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