Maine State Chamber of Commerce board officers for 2023-24, high from left, are LuAnn Ballesteros and Clif Greim. Backside from left are Bob Montegomery-Rice and Ann Robinson. Dana Connors is the Maine State Chamber president.
AUGUSTA — The Maine State Chamber of Commerce has introduced its board of administrators has elected LuAnn Ballesteros, vp of Exterior and Authorities Affairs for The Jackson Laboratory, as board chair. Ballesteros’ two-year time period will start on Jan. 1. Present Chair Clif Greim of Frosty Hill Consulting will function previous board chair upon the completion of his two-year time period as chair on Dec. 31. Bob Montgomery-Rice, president and CEO of Bangor Financial savings Financial institution, will function first vice chair. Ann Robinson, accomplice and chair of Pierce Atwood’s Authorities Relations & Lobbying Observe Group, has been elected second vice chair.
The incoming Maine State Chamber board officers will lead Maine’s largest enterprise affiliation at a pivotal time as the primary common session of the 131st Maine State Legislature convenes, and as Maine continues to expertise aftermath results of the COVID-19 pandemic, rising inflation, growing vitality and housing prices, workforce shortages, and different financial challenges. Maine is also experiencing increased in-migration, and elevated investments in areas supporting financial development, reminiscent of schooling, workforce growth, broadband enlargement, elevated entry to youngster care, and extra, in keeping with a information launch from the chamber.
“With honest due to present Board Chair Clif Greim and Maine State Chamber President Dana Connors for his or her excellent management, it’s a nice honor to be chosen to chair the Maine State Chamber’s Board of Administrators,” mentioned Ballesteros. “The chamber will proceed to have a look at Maine’s future with optimism, a concentrate on the positives, and a dedication to the success and betterment of our state and all Maine folks. We now have important challenges earlier than us, they usually require collaboration among the many enterprise neighborhood, lawmakers and authorities and coverage leaders. Working collectively, we will additional advance Maine as an important place to stay, work and do enterprise.”
“It has been a privilege to function the Maine State Chamber’s board chair during the last two years, and to see the outstanding work the chamber does and can proceed to do, even in probably the most troublesome of instances such because the COVID-19 pandemic,” mentioned Greim. “I sit up for working with new chamber management to proceed rising the chamber, addressing Maine’s present enterprise challenges, and serving to Maine put together for a fair brighter financial future.”
“The chamber is lucky and grateful to have had the sturdy and regular management of Clif Greim during the last two years, and to have the management, imaginative and prescient and vitality of LuAnn Ballesteros for the following two years,” mentioned Maine State Chamber President Dana Connors. “As my retirement from the chamber nears, I’m assured that with LuAnn on the helm and a devoted govt committee and board with deep expertise and experience, the chamber is well-positioned heading into 2023 to proceed its mission advancing a powerful enterprise local weather and economic system.”
The Maine State Chamber’s board of administrators guides the chamber’s legislative and regulatory coverage and advocacy efforts and directs its pro-active agenda on initiatives and points that influence Maine employers, economic system and enterprise local weather. The Maine State Chamber’s board of administrators will comprise 90 members initially of 2023. Along with electing management at their Nov. 21 assembly, 28 board members have been reappointed and eight new administrators have been elected.
The Maine State Chamber has not named a successor to Connors, who will retire as president of the group within the coming months.
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