Welcome to Metro Phoenix 2025

Welcome to Metro Phoenix 2025

Thursday, April 24, 2:45pm to 5:00pm

At Thunderbird School of Global Management, 401 1st Street, Room 335

Attend our signature Welcome to Metro Phoenix in-person event if you're a new leader to the area, having landed in the past 3 years... to connect with leaders who have been here for longer... to gain wider and deeper access to this amazing community.

This year's event theme is HOPE... bringing sage thinking, resilience and new opportunities to create better outcomes. This in-person event is a 'welcome wagon' style for connecting and information sharing between leaders and across companies.

• Members attend for free! Thank you for your support and collaboration! Let's grow!
• New leaders attend for free, too! New to Phoenix the last 3 years? Welcome! Let's connect!
• Non-members in Phoenix here for more than 3 years? It's a nominal fee - welcome! Join us!

We're honored to feature Congressman Greg Stanton as our keynote speaker. Ten years ago, then Mayor Stanton hosted the Global Chamber launch at Phoenix City Hall with a dream, and HOPE.

We have a variety of wonderful leaders like Mike Patterson and more (see below) who will share their experiences and tips about metro Phoenix - from newbies to folks who have had their family here for generations. It takes a village, and this is a nifty village... see you Thursday!

Agenda (2:45pm to 5:00pm)

• Keynote Remarks - Congressman Greg Stanton
• Welcome - Eduardo Gonzalez, Doug Bruhnke
• Remarks by Leaders
  • Melissa Sanderson - American Rare Earths
  • Kimber Lanning - Local First
  • Rita Marko - City of Phoenix
  • Prady Gupta - Infinita Lab
  • Ramsés Galaz - GSE Biomedical
  • Ryunosuke Sakamoto (Ryan), 坂本 龍之介 - Sanyo Trading Company
  • Melissa Armas - AZ Collab
  • Doc Jones - Scottsdale Jazz Festival
  • Rutherford Pascal - Glass Walls Leadership
  • Mike Patterson - Spencer Fane
  • Marc Cohen - Buy Direct Companies & Project Max
  • Hank Marshall - Clearflow Group
  • And more! 
• Celebrating Exporters and Export League 
• Wrap-up by 5pm

This signature event originated when the President of a subsidiary told us that he felt abandoned after his company landed in metro Phoenix.

Speakers

Throughout his career, Greg Stanton has worked tirelessly to deliver results for Arizona families. Serving as Phoenix mayor from 2012 to 2018, he focused on building an economy rooted in innovation and trade. Under his leadership, Phoenix created thousands of quality jobs and recently saw the highest wage growth in the nation.

Greg has earned a reputation for working across the aisle to get things done. His biggest accomplishments in Phoenix were passed with bipartisan support: the City’s investment in the biosciences and higher education, support for small businesses, and national recognition for leadership on LGBT equality.  In 2015, Stanton won reelection and successfully led one of the most ambitious transportation initiatives in the country—a bipartisan, voter-backed plan to extend Phoenix’s light rail system, expand bus service, and improve thousands of miles of roadways over the next 35 years.

During his time in Congress, Greg has focused on planning for the state’s water future, investing in public transportation and infrastructure, building Arizona's economy of the future and lowering costs for working families. He is a member of the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.

Before his election as mayor, Greg served nine years on the Phoenix City Council and as Arizona’s Deputy Attorney General. He attended Marquette University on the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, and earned a law degree from the University of Michigan. Greg and his wife Nicole have two children.

Global Chamber® Advisory Board Leaders here.

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About Global Chamber®

Global Chamber® is a growing and collaborating community of CEOs, executives and leaders in 525 metro regions around the world... everywhere... connecting member businesses to new opportunities, and advancing business growth, regional progress and global success. Global Chamber® is a registered trademark of Global Chamber, LLC

More on Global Chamber Phoenix HERE.