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THE VOICE OF CHESTER COUNTY
JUNE 2015
the Voice
The Chester County Chamber of Business & Industry hosts the 3rd Annual Business Showcase on Tuesday, June 30. The Annual Business Showcase provides a casual environment for attendees to meet and mingle with other business professionals. We expect 30+ exhibitor booths and hundreds of attendees. The event is open to the public and free to attend. This event has developed into one of CCCBI’s LARGEST networking events of the year, making it a must-attend for business professionals who want to gain a competitive advantage, network with other business owners, and develop new business and client contacts.
Our Business Showcase highlights select businesses with company booths.
Interested in featuring your business? Secure your booth today!
Be part of the 2015 Business Showcase
Booth Pricing CCCBI Members $275 Non-members - $400
Contact Julia Taylor to purchase your booth today
Event Details Tuesday, June 30 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Bayard Rustin High School 1100 S Shiloh Road
West Chester, PA 19382
Corporate Sponsor:
Spotlight Sponsor Univest Bank and Trust
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June Events
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2015 CCCBI Summer Golf League Kickoff
Honeybrook Golf Club 5:00 pm
Register Here
$350 - Six night full package $200 - Three night half package
Tuesday, June 2
Business After Hours The Columbia Station
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Register Here
Free for members with early bird registration
Tuesday, June 2
Employee Wellness Forum Chester County Hospital
8:00 am - 10:30 am Register Here
Panelists from:
Independence Blue Cross The Chester County Hospital
YMCA of Greater Brandywine Wawa
Host & Sponsor:
The Chester County Hospital
Thursday, June 11
CCCBI Summer Lunch Series: Let’s Do Lunch
CCCBI Headquarters 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Register Here
$20 for members $30 for non-members
Casual lunch while connecting with some of Chester County’s
top professionals.
Wednesday, June 17
Summer Golf League Hartefeld National Golf Club
5:00 pm Contact Matt Johnson to register
$350 - Six night full package
$200 - Three night half package
Tuesday, June 16
2015 Business Showcase Bayard Rustin High School
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Booth Pricing $275 CCCBI Members
$400 Non-members
Tuesday, June 30
Wine & TED(Talk): Why Do Ambitious
Women Have Flat Heads? CCCBI Headquarters
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Register Here
$20 for members $35 non-members
Brought to you by the
CCCBI Women Influencing Business Committee
Tuesday, June 23
Form more information or to purchase a booth contact
please Julia Taylor
The Showcase is free to attend and open to the public.
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July Events
Tuesday, July 14
Summer Golf League Hershey’s Mill Golf Club
5:00 pm Contact Matt Johnson to register
$350 - Six night full package
$200 - Three night half package
Tuesday, July 28
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Wednesday, July 15
Summer BBQ Bash CCCBI Headquarters
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Register Here
Free for those who actively serve
on a CCCBI Committee.
Sponsored by: Brite Realty Services, Inc
Purple Picnic People M&T bank
Wednesday, July 8
Summer Golf League Radley Run Country Club
5:00 pm Contact Matt Johnson to register
$350 - Six night full package
$200 - Three night half package
CCCBI Summer Lunch Series: Let’s Do Lunch
CCCBI Headquarters 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Register Here
$20 for members $30 for non-members
Casual lunch while connecting with some of Chester County’s
top professionals.
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Expert Forum: Employee Wellness Programs
If you are looking to start, enhance, or gain knowledge about Employee Wellness Programs, this is an event you cannot miss.
Learn from the experts and ask the questions that can help you and you company.
Keynote Remarks: Dr. Rich Snyder, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Independence Blue Cross
Our Expert Panel:
Stephanie Capaccio, Director of Associate Relations and Benefits, Wawa Kim Eberbach, Vice President, Wellness and Community Health, Independence Blue Cross
Denise L. Day, President and CEO, YMCA of Greater Brandywine Dr. Richard Donze, Chief Medical Officer, The Chester County Hospital
Space is limited; contact us to reserve your seat today.
Thursday, June 11th 8:00 am- 10:30 am
Chester County Hospital Mira Conference Room
Register Here
Registration includes admittance to event and breakfast Members: $35 • Non-members: $50
Hosted and Sponsored by:
Co-sponsors:
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Welcoming the Chamber’s Newest Members Members Joined in May 2015
Syndicate Strategies Michael Evangelista
610-565-9640
Biztract, LLC Nick Porrini
610-564-2994
MidAtlantic Employers Association
Bryant P. McKenna 800-662-6238
Bellingham Retirement Communities
Liz Boyle 484-653-4417
Auble Financial Edward C. Auble 610-889-1640
Serene Vision Massage, LLC Tatyana Kosmin
484-885-7917
LimeLight Awards & Recognition Andrea Miller 610-644-1111
Omne Solutions Tom Guidotti 484-682-5151
Blue Rock Financial Group Chris Griest
302-660-3350
The National Iron and Steel Heritage Museum
Jim Ziegler 610-384-9282
Carvertise Greg Star
914-260-5769
Brandywine Home Care David Pickett 610-333-5011
Graffen Integrated Business Systems Wilhem Rebmann
610-825-3737
Caring Transitions of Chester County John Hall
610-331-3031
Advanced Clean Energy Solutions, Inc. Rick Bunn
484-354-2303
Whole Heart Counseling Services
Mary Jane Wilt 484-341-8959
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Registration open! The 2015 Annual Dinner to be held
Thursday, November 12, 2015 (NEW Date)
The Annual Dinner takes place each year on the breathtaking grounds of Longwood Gardens.
The event brings together business and community leaders to celebrate the Chamber’s successes of the past year, looks ahead at the future plans of the organization, and
recognizes the change of leadership at the Board of Directors.
This year we have the pleasure of honoring Aqua America’s Chairman and CEO, Nick DeBenedictis as the 2015 Executive of the Year.
Contact Danielle Vetter to get your company name associated with this outstanding event.
Tickets, Sponsorship and Advertising Opportunities now available!
Presented by:
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A One of a Kind Golfing Experience
The Annual Penn Liberty Bank-Chester County Chamber Golf Classic to take place on Tuesday, August 18th at Applebrook Golf Club
A beautiful day at one of the finest clubs in Chester County. The Annual Golf Classic is complete with cook
out lunch, 1:00 pm shotgun start and a delectable surf and turf dinner with complimenting cocktails.
Individual golfer: $500 Sponsorship Opportunities are available
Not a golfer? The dinner is open for registration! Join the area’s top business professionals for dinner and drinks with the sunset background.
Dinner tickets are $100 and include admittance to event, surf and turf dinner, and cocktails.
Must call or email Danielle to register for Dinner Only tickets.
Register Here
Thank you to this year’s Sponsors
Dinner Sponsor: Univest Bank and Trust Co
Birdie Sponsors:
Aqua Buckley, Brion, McGuire & Morris, LLP
Comcast DNB First
Exelon Generation Independence Blue Cross
M&T Bank
Tee Sponsors: Lamb McErlane, PC
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP
Presented by:
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CCCBI Annual Summer BBQ Bash
Our Annual Summer BBQ Bash is just around the corner and we don't want you to miss out on a night filled with fun, food, and drinks.
We would like to show our appreciation to our all our committee members by inviting you for free.
If you are actively serving on a committee please reach out to Julia Taylor for your free ticket.
Register Here
$20 member rate $40 non-member
Wednesday, July 8 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
CCCBI Headquarters
Sponsored by:
CCCBI Introduces Summer Series: Let’s Do Lunch
Get out of the office and have yourself a productive lunch while
connecting with your fellow chamber members.
Join the Chamber for our new summer series: Let’s Do Lunch. Let’s Do Lunch is a members only series.
Wednesday, June 17
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CCCBI HQ
$20 Register Here
Wednesday, July15 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
CCCBI HQ $20
Register Here
Wednesday, August 12 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
CCCBI HQ $20
Register Here
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Monarch Staffing Laura Kasper 610-604-0202
By Ken Knickerbocker, Publisher of VISTA Today Anyone clicking on QVC Investor’s Page quickly realizes QVC, the $8 billion dollar leading global video and ecommerce retailer based in East Goshen Township, just outside West Chester, has a maniacal hold of its marketing, customer, and publicity analytics. How can anyone not be impressed with these across these numbers?
QVC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, is one of the largest multimedia
retailers in the world, broadcasts live in the U.S. 24 hours a day, 364 days a year. QVC's worldwide corporate headquarters in West Chester, known as Studio Park, has 18 permanent
sets and more than 100 portable scenic elements, sits on 84 acres of land and is roughly the size of 15 U.S. football fields.
The 165,000-square-foot broadcast operations center enables QVC to produce its live programming,
which attracts more than 22,000 on-air guest visits each year and showcases more than 1,000 products every week.
QVC employs more than 7,000 people in Chester County and 17,000 people worldwide. QVC has international broadcast operations in the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and Italy, and
a joint venture in China. In 2014 alone, QVC shipped approximately 173 million individual products and generated $8.8B in
annual revenues. To date, approximately 60 million people have shopped with QVC worldwide. The company’s online
counterpart, QVC.com, attracts more than 6 million unique visitors each month. QVC ranked as the 6th largest eCommerce player among multi-category retailers, and #15 across all
industries according to Internet Retailer's Top 500 list. QVC ranked 7th in social commerce sales and #11 in total unique visitors from social networks
according to Internet Retailer's Social Media 50 list. QVC was named #3 on the list of top brands that delivers the best customer experience according to
the 2015 Forrester Research Customer Experience Index. QVC was named one of America's Top Employers in 2015, and ranked 2nd for the Media and
Advertising category and #141 overall out of 500 in companies, by Forbes. QVC was named a Philadelphia Top Workplace by The Philadelphia Inquirer/Philly.com for the 2nd
year in a row. Bottom line; QVC’s numbers add up to one more reason to celebrate working and living in Chester County.
Note: To download a PDF version of VISTA 2025, visit VISTA Today
With 60 Million Customers, QVC Owns eCommerce
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On The Scene… View, like, and
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2015 Women Influencing Business Dinner
L to R - PA State Rep. Becky Corbin, 2015 Female Business Leader of the Year, Holly Graver, CCCBI VP,
Marianne Martelli, CCCBI Chair Elect, Kim Brumbaugh, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia President & CEO, Madeline Bell, and Linda Taylor, Independence Blue Cross
Lisa McDermott, Stratus Interactive, Jeannie McGinn, Fulton Bank, and 2014 Female Business Leader of the
Year, Kymberly Robinson, Stratus Interactive
Holly Graver with Betsy Niedziejko, Chair of the
Women Influencing Business Committee
Kate Brennan of Bernardon Haber
Holloway Architects PC, and Chester County
Commissioner Terence Farrell
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Pope's visit gives region a chance to shine
By Guy Ciarrocchi and Joel Frank
POSTED: MONDAY, MAY 11, 2015, PHILLY.COM
This September Pope Francis and more than two million visitors will come to Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families (WMF).
For the last several months, our Chamber has been communicating with officials at the Archdiocese or Philadelphia, VisitPhilly.com, the Pennsylvania Convention and Visitors Bureau, and local tourism bureaus. We’ve held meetings and a forum to help Chester County hotels, restaurants, caterers, bus and limousine companies, and many other businesses learn about WMF, and meet with the archdiocese and tourism executives.
Why would we do this? Why would we care? Why should the suburbs care?
We care because these two million people will need places to sleep and eat and they will need transportation. And, naturally, we want our county’s businesses to be showcased and benefit from the multimillion-dollar economic shot-in-the-arm that is certain to come.
But, an even better reason for our organization to be engaged in this event — as well as already preparing for the Democratic National Convention in 2016 — is because the WMF is a week-long commercial for the Philadelphia region. For that week, media from around the world will be here. Yes, they will cover the pope’s arrival, his itinerary, and his remarks. But they will also cover the visitors, talk about the city, our region, where their locals will be staying, eating, and more.
For one week, the world — literally, the world — will see our region; many for the first time. We intend to show ourselves to be a top-flight U.S. city worthy of being a national and international destination.
While the visitors will be focused on the pope and the conference, they will eat, sleep and travel across the region. How well they sleep, eat, travel, and navigate will play a large role in what they think of Philadelphia. And, in 2015, it’s not only what they will say to their friends and family when they get home. They will be posting live — on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter — during their stay.
Will they be smiling in their selfies on the Parkway or at the Liberty Bell? Or in Valley Forge National Historical Park or at Longwood Gardens?
We care — our members care — because we are not only good citizens, but also smart capitalists.
We want the WMF to be a successful event in the eyes of the media and all attendees because they will indeed tell their friends and family.
Some of these people will be corporate executives or trade group presidents, who decide where to open East Coast offices or hold training seminars and national conferences. We should all want them to think about our region — our restaurants and B&Bs, our museums and parks, and our corporate office parks — when they return home.
If we work together, if we work collaboratively, we will not only have a successful WMF, but, we also will reap the benefits for years.
We will increase our tourism, welcome new businesses, and create new jobs. Long after our September visitors have departed, we will all be cheering from downtown Philly to Downingtown and beyond.
Guy Ciarrocchi is the president and CEO of the Chester County Chamber of Business and Industry. Joel Frank is the chamber’s board chairman and the managing partner at Lamb McErlane PC.
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Directors
Meet Your Board
Chairperson of the Board Joel Frank, Esq.
Lamb McErlane, PC
Chairperson Elect Kim Brumbaugh
Brumbaugh Wealth Management
Treasurer Ken Goddu Fulton Bank
Immediate Past Chairperson Michael DeHaven, CPA
Rainer & Company, Certified Public Accountants
Foundation Chairperson Pat Ward
Penn Liberty Bank
Officers Vice Chairpersons
*Director Emeritus / Past Chairman of the Board
Louis Kupperman, Esq., Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell, & Hippel, LLP
Jim Lucas, Vistage Brandywine Valley Albert Melfi Jr.*, DNB First Margarita Mirkil, Coloma Consulting Kevin Morgan, Blue Moon Florist Anthony Morris, Esq., Buckley, Brion,
McGuire, & Morris David Moser*, DFT, Inc. Alan P. Novak, Esq, Novak Strategic Advisors Kevin O’Brien, The Chester County Hospital Mark Pavlovich, West Chester University Frances Sheehan, Brandywine Health Foundation William Simkiss, The Simkiss Companies Gary Smith, Chester County Economic
Development Council Julie Sommese, Univest Bank and Trust Co. Linda Taylor, Independence Blue Cross Ram Vijayanathan, QVC George Zumbano, Gawthrop Greenwood, PC
Bill Belknap, aEONRG, LLC Carlo Borgia, Wells Fargo Bank Susan Brandt, Bentley Systems Michael Bray, The Vanguard Group Michael Brown, KMRD Partners, Inc. Bryan Burklow Chad Byers, Brandywine Mergers & Acquisitions Elizabeth Bush, Endo International, plc Michael Chain, Desmond Hotel & Conference Center Bernie Ciuffetelli, To-Jo Mushrooms Brian DiSabatino*, EDiS Construction Michael Fili, Aqua Thomas Fillippo*, Devault Foods Dennis Fisher, Longwood Gardens Chris Franklin,*Aqua Sassan Hejazi, Kreischer Miller Buzz Hannum Jr., Lyons Companies Duane Knecht, Communications Test Design, Inc Blake Krapf, Krapf Bus Companies Dale Krapf*, Krapf Bus Companies
Business Development Division Kristen LaDow
M&T Bank
Membership Development Division Stacy Martin Hankin Group
Public Policy Division Thomas Chiomento
Exelon Generation, LLC
Strategic Planning Division James Lee WaWa, Inc.
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MARIANNE MARTELLI IOM Vice President
DANIELLE VETTER Director of
Event Planning [email protected]
Chamber Staff Your Business is Our Business
JOAN CROUSE Executive Assistant,
Office Manager [email protected]
MARY ENGLAND Director of Finance [email protected]
MATT JOHNSON Director of Marketing &
Communications [email protected]
PAT HAYAKAWA Director of Membership
GUY CIARROCCHI President & CEO [email protected]
JULIA TAYLOR Networking & Programs
Manager [email protected]
The Chester County Chamber of Business & Industry 1600 Paoli Pike, Malvern, PA 19355
610-725-9100 www.cccbi.org