Global Chamber Austin Board Meeting

Global Chamber Austin Board Meeting

Austin global business leaders please join us on February 9th, 2023, as we discuss international business opportunities for you and your business.  Our board chair, Andrew Rauch, will provide his leadership perspectives and background.

Second Thursday of each month at - 4:00 to 5:00 pm CST

Agenda: Welcome!

Opening by Stefanie

Perspectives by Andrew

Introductions of Members

Discussion of 2023 Plans / Progress / Next

Other Topics

Wrap-up at 5pm CT

BIOGRAPHY: 

Stefanie Austin, Executive Director - Global Chamber Austin

Stefanie Austin is a healthcare executive, entrepreneur, author and leader within the Global Chamber Austin.   She serves on the steering group of Global Chamber Texas.

Results-oriented: Healthcare Administrator with health administration acumen in a diverse billion-dollar healthcare system. Background in clinical administration, clinical research, financial management, business development and strategic planning. Functional knowledge of Good Clinical Practice. Proven success in researching, implementing and evaluating the feasibility of new programs & processes improvement and development.

Accomplished: Vice President of Operations, Assistant Vice President, Operations Director, Ambulatory Care Manager, and Project Manager seeking to leverage extensive Operations, Customer Service background in Business Development. Proven leadership abilities concerning teams.

 Andrew Rauch, Board Chair

Andrew Rauch has more than 25 years of experience working with and serving with board of directors, CEO’s, executives and business owners on matters of strategy, sales and marketing, technology, business and capital development. 

Mr. Rauch has jointly or independently served and advised more than 200 for profit and not-for-profit organizations in industries including technology, training, real estate, telecommunications, professional services, banking, manufacturing, logistics and venture philanthropy.

Mr. Rauch has helped launch and grow numerous ventures including, SOLIDleaders a C-Suite coaching, mentoring and consulting firm, Solid Green Companies a provider of SMART Net Zero™ energy buildings, SalesOverDrive and SalesOutsourcing Pros, a marketing, sales and business development advisory firm, C12 Group, a local and leading Christian CEO roundtable, executive coaching, and business advisory group, higherhands, a venturephilanthropy.com backed real-estate maintenance company equipping, mentoring and providing jobs to unemployed men in the local church.

Mr. Rauch has served in various business growth and leaderships roles including, Vice President of Growth for Improving Nearshore, a digital services firm focused on helping well-funded start-ups to enterprise brands transform their business by leveraging digital innovation. Vice President of Sales at The Knowledge Capital Group, where he was responsible for delivering strategic marketing, sales, and business development advisory services to more than 300 technology companies. Mr. Rauch has also held various business development roles with technology start-ups including Agillion, iChat, InfraWorks, and Motive Communications.

Mr. Rauch earned a bachelor's degree in accounting and finance from Pace University in Pleasantville, New York. 

Mr. Rauch is married to Sabrina, has three children and resides in Dripping Springs, Texas.

Global Chamber® is a growing and collaborating community of CEOs, executives and leaders in 525 metro regions around the world... connecting member businesses to new opportunities and 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 members to connect through warm introductions to clients, partners, projects and resources. Global Chamber® is a registered trademark of Global Chamber, LLC since 2014.

SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION

The Global Chamber has an exciting opportunity for you to help support the growth of our region in the area of international trade (imports and exports), foreign direct investments, and global cooperation.  The huge success of the Board and our business and civic friends is credited in large part to our sponsors, who will lend their names and financial support to our events.  We extend our hearty THANK YOU!

We hope you will consider joining our sponsors listed below for annual sponsorship of all of our events.   See Link:

Our Global Chamber annual sponsorship levels are:

• Visionary Sponsorship - $10,000
• Chairman Sponsorship - $5,000
• CEO Sponsorship - $2,500
• President Sponsorship - $1,250
• Think Global, Eat Local Sponsorship - $500

 If you are a one-time sponsor for this event, please provide your logo to aus@globalchamber.org and pay your donation at the following link:

• Gold Level - Texas International Sponsorship - $750 (Short speaking opportunity + logo on flyer)
• Silver Level - Austin International Sponsorship - $500 (Logo on Event page, Flyer)
• Bronze Level - Business-Diplomacy Sponsorship - $250 (Logo on Event page, Flyer)

Donation/payment page: https://www.globalchamber.org/forms/payment/. Select Austin as the Metro and use the sponsor amount of choice.   We will add your logo to our online promotion once received.  We will email you your copy for your records.  We ask that your business and/or association market the event on social media or on your website.

As a sponsor, you will receive benefits designed to increase your company's visibility and provide a return on your company's investment, including:

* Exposure to the largest export community in the world

* Name recognition in press releases and media coverage

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact AUS@globalchamber.org or call 512-436-0378.  Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thank you!