Description
Designed for experienced leaders, Certified Chamber Executive (CCE) is the highly-recognized designation for high-achieving chamber professionals. Find out how certification can boost your professional confidence and take your career to the next level in this informational webinar, which also outlines the process and eligibility requirements for the CCE.
Contributors
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Megan Lucas, CCE, CEcD, IOM
Megan has been the CEO and Chief Economic Development Officer of the Lynchburg Regional Business Alliance the regional chamber and economic development organization since 2014 . She was hired to reestablish the regional economic development organization while charting a course for merger with the regional chamber of commerce. Today, she leads a team of ten as the Lynchburg Regional Business Alliance the region’s chamber and economic development organization. She as an entrepreneurial business and economic development thought leader in the region providing innovative, forward-thinking leadership for the region and the Alliance.
Megan is a seasoned community and economic development professional with a career in the industry that spans more than 19 years and includes the states of Tennessee, Nebraska and Virginia. She received her IOM from the US Chamber of Commerce, Certification in Economic Development from the International Economic Development Council and is Certified Chamber of Commerce Executive (CCE) from the American Chamber of Commerce Executives.
Megan is the current Chair of the US Chamber of Commerce Institute Board of Trustees and also an Institute instructor teaching a variety of courses to include Volunteer Management,Marketing Strategies, Strategic Leadership, Organizational Leadership and Economic Development. In 2019 Megan was invited to be a member of the Chamber of Commerce Committee of 100 (CCC100) an select group of chamber executives that represents the perspectives and needs of chambers and their members to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Megan is the recipient of the Omaha Public Power District Community Leadership Award, Bellevue Nebraska Person of the Year 2011 award,Women of Distinction Award and 40 under 40 awards. In January 2017,Megan was named as one of North America's top 50 Economic Developers by Consultant Connect.
Megan was born and raised on a Black Angus Cattle ranch in central Missouri. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Culver-Stockton College, Canton Missouri and Master of Science from the University of Memphis, Memphis TN. Megan moved to Virginia in March of 2012 with her husband Tory Lucas, professor of Law at Liberty University.
Megan believes that vision, integrity and passion are the keys to success.
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Tony Vedda, CCE, IOM
Tony has been the Chamber's President & CEO since 2007, following two years of service on the Board of Directors. His career in chamber management began thirty years ago as a membership specialist for the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce. Since that time he has worked with several general market chambers in Arizona and California, as well as five years as Executive Director of San Francisco's Golden Gate Business Association, the nation's first LGBT chamber of commerce.
Tony is one of less than 200 active chamber leaders, and the only LGBT chamber leader, to receive the Certified Chamber Executive (CCE) designation from the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE). He is also a graduate of the US Chamber's Institute for Organization Management (IOM). Tony has served on the US Chamber West Institute Board of Regents and the Institute Board of Trustees. He currently serves on the boards of the North Texas Commission, Visit Dallas, where he chairs the Governance Committee, and ACCE, where he chairs the Audit Committee. He is a member of the Texas Chamber of Commerce Executives (TCCE), as well as Leadership San Francisco, and Leadership Dallas alumni associations.