greater owensboro chamber of commerce
Vol 18/Issue 9
CHAMBER MATTERS 2020
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Remote Rooster Booster to be held this Thursday in o J
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There is no cost to attend the remote September 3 Rooster Booster, which will be streamed on Facebook Live and Zoom.
Join us via Facebook Live @gochamber
To join via Zoom, visit chamber.owensboro.com to complete a registration form. Registrants will be emailed an access link and instructions.
CLASS OF
2021
The Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce will host Rooster Booster remotely this Thursday, September 3 at 7:30 a.m. CST. Sponsored by Brescia University, the morning’s featured speaker will be Owensboro native and technology entrepreneur Rick Higdon.
Rick Higdon to virtually address Rooster Booster viewers Rick Higdon has spent the worked for GFI as president of an past 35 years working in various operating unit and supported the finance, sales and roll up of four technology executive management firms which were later roles in the technology s o l d to O ra c l e. Af te r industry. He has deep leaving GFI he founded experience in international the systems integration business development firm Turnpoint Solutions, and has worked with and after seven years of companies in the energy, growth R ick sold the mining and transportation Rick Higdon company to Five Point industries. Rick started his partners who were later career in audit, and is a Certified acquired by EY. Rick worked at EY Public Accountant (inactive). as an Executive Director before After early roles in internal audit retiring in 2016. and corporate accounting, Rick Rick is currently serving as went to work for an ERP software a Senior Board Advisor with firm where he managed global Bravaldo Capital Partners, and budgeting and planning while is serving as a board advisor for living in Australia and then moved two technology companies while to South America where he took acting as president for one of on a business development role. those companies. He also serves as He later worked as CFO of a mobile Chair of the Board of Trustees for computing firm and led the sale Brescia University and is a board of the company to private equity member of the Lingap Center firm GFI Energy Ventures. He then children’s foundation.
2020 Chamber Golf Classic The 2020 Chamber Golf Classic, Presented by Owensboro Health, was held last Friday, August 28 at the Owensboro Country Club. We were grateful for the opportunity to responsibly network in a socially distant setting and with the utmost care for the health and wellness of our participants, sponsors and community. A special thanks to all of the sponsors and players who spent the day on the course with us!
Tune in to this Thursday’s Rooster Booster for the announcement of the Leadership Owensboro Class of 2021!
Brescia University’s growth still serving student-centered mission As the longest-standing provider of higher education in Daviess County, Brescia University is firmly rooted in its student-centered mission to provide transforming educational opportunities to meet the individual needs of each student in pursuit of higher education. Since 1925 when it first formed as the Mount Saint Joseph College for Women, to 1948 when it became a member of the flourishing downtown in order to meet the needs of Veterans returning from WWII, to present day where it serves as the “Gateway to Downtown.” Brescia University has been a part of the fabric of the Greater Owensboro Community as well as the global population it serves. Brescia University has experienced unprecedented growth over the past five years since the launch of the Gateway campaign in 2014. Brescia completed
renovations on the Moore Center in 2017 and began construction of the C.E. Field Center for Professional Studies in 2019, which began hosting its first group of students this fall. Building on the success of the Gateway campaign, the Onward, Brescia! campaign focuses on meeting the needs of modern day learners by providing access to a modernized campus. This includes technology upgrades that have made way for a new education delivery method: mixed enrollment, where the on-ground and online access are merged to seamlessly tailor the educational experience to each individual student. Brescia is focused on producing servant leaders whose lives exemplify leadership capabilities balanced with the responsibility of service. It is what we call the Brescia Difference: Respect for the Sacred; Devotion to Learning; Commitment to Growth in Virtue; and Promotion of Servant Leadership.
PRESENTED BY
TEAM PHOTO SPONSOR
PLATINUM SPONSORS
GOLF BALL SPONSOR
GOLD SPONSORS
323 Staffing Solutions American Engineers Inc. Atmos Energy BB&T Don Moore Automotive EM Ford Evansville Teachers Federal Credit Union Evergreen Lawn Care/Weed Man German American Bank Independence Bank Kentucky Wesleyan College Limestone Bank
Ohio Valley Insurance Old National Bank Owensboro Riverport Authority Riney Hancock CPAs PSC Ruoff Mortgage Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline Southwire Company Sun Windows Team Owensboro U.S. Bank U.S. Lawns of Owensboro Wonder Boy Media
HOLE SPONSORS
Bob Glenn for City Commission Chick-fil-A Chicken Salad Chick Disaster Team, Inc. Drake's
Health First Community Health Center Hobgood Wealth Advisors of Baird Ole South Barbeque OMUfibernet