Tucson Business Radio – Tucson Means Business ep. 5

On today’s Tucson Means Business, hosted by Mark Bishop

Amber Smith

CEO

Tucson Metro Chamber

http://www.linkedin.com/company/tucson-metropolitan-chamber-of-commerce

https://www.facebook.com/TheTucsonChamber

https://www.instagram.com/tucson_metro_chamber/

Amber has spent her entire career in government relations with your first exposure to government relations working for Senator John McCain in the late 90s.

Following graduate school at the UA, she worked for Racy Associates, a local lobbying firm largely representing land developers and home builders on entitlement and rezoning issues.

Leaving the firm when the recession hit, Amber began working for metropolitan Pima alliance first as government relations director and then as executive director eventually promoted to CEO after growing the organization 30%.

MPA is a real estate and land use membership-based organization that focuses on public policy issues in that industry and uses collaboration to resolve those issues.

Mitch Pisik

Executive Coach and Business Consultant

631-943-5275

mitch@pisik.consulting

Linkedin.com/in/mitchpisik

Twitter: @mitchpisik

Mitch has worked as an Executive Coach, Business Consultant, Keynote Speaker and Facilitator for the past twenty years; doing so in a full-time practice since 2016.

He leverages the award-winning successes of turning-around and substantially growing four diverse Private-Equity portfolio businesses as CEO (in New York, Texas, and Arizona) over fifteen years; and previously for seventeen years as a Senior Executive in strategy, business development, operations, finance, mergers and acquisitions, consulting, and finance at several of the world’s largest global companies – including Kraft, Newell-Rubbermaid, Novartis, and KPMG.

He has conducted business in over three dozen countries.

He is and has been, an active Board Member of numerous public, private, and not-for-profit organizations – including the Tucson Metro Chamber.

He also teaches the Strategic Leadership course at the University of Arizona.