Annual Meeting and Awards for Chamber Excellence (ACE) Luncheon

Congratulations to our ACE recipients!  Please see the press release and nominees in bold below.

Join your Reston Chamber friends, members and guests at the Annual Meeting and Awards for Chamber Excellence Luncheon where we will recognize the individual and corporate members below, who have been nominated by their peers for their demonstrated excellence, industry innovation and Chamber support over the past year. Other highlights of this networking luncheon include transitioning to the 2018-2019 Board of Directors under Charlene Wheeless of Bechtel; learning about economic development priorities in the Commonwealth from Keynote Speaker Stephen Moret of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP); and celebrating our 35th Anniversary.

Announcing Our 2018 ACE Nominees!
Committee of the Year
GovCon 
Membership
NoVA B2G Conference Steering Committee
Resourceful Women
Tuesday 11:30 Leadshare

Small Business of the Year
ch'i bodyworks
Chip McCrea Photography
Dave and JoAnne Adams Group
Dimensional Concepts
Embrace Home Loans
HCM2020
Hughes & Abarca Insurance LLC
Lend-a-Box
LNI Digital Marketing
Purple Squirrel Management Consulting
SpeedPro Imaging Northern VA
Sweet Signatures
Tagence

Medium Business of the Year
AOC Key Solutions
Communicate by Design (cbd-x)
Clark Financial Solutions
Gold's Gym Clocktower
Hidden Creek Country Club
KME.digital
M&T Bank
Shelter House
Synergy Design & Construction

Large Business of the Year
Access National Bank
American Disposal Services, Inc.
Crowne Plaza Dulles Airport
Microsoft
SOS International (SOSi)

Member of the Year
Dan Nathan, AOC Key Solutions
Dave Adams, Dave and JoAnne Adams Group
Dave and JoAnne Adams, Dave and JoAnne Adams Group
Ellen Jennings, BEI
Susan Banville, Embrace Home Loans
Janel Giambrone, M&T Bank
Jennifer Rhodes, Tagence
Jennifer Robinson, ch'i bodyworks
Jerry Ferguson, Fairfax Public Access
Kevin Learned, McMahon, Welch & Learned
Kevin Lee
Monica Archondo, Sweet Signatures
Oahn Henry, Allegra Printing
Randy Jones, First Financial Group
Robyn McClure, Pinot's Palette
Tom Madden, Visual Impact Productions

New Member of the Year
Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurant
Karen Dobson, GovCon Consulting
Pure Perfection Catering

Volunteer of the Year
Dan Nathan, AOC Key Solutions
Iris Britt, Iris Britt Consulting
Jennifer Rhodes, Tagence
Jennifer Robinson, ch'i bodyworks
Kevin Taylor, cbd-x
Lauralee Beall, First Baptist Church of Herndon
Omicron Kappa Kappa (OKK) Foundation
Randy Jones, First Financial Group
Steve Salley, Salley Wealth Management
Susan Banville, Embrace Home Loans
Tom Madden, Visual Impact Productions

Young Professional of the Year
Amber Hart, AOC Key Solutions
Ben Bookwalter, Able Moving & Storage
Colin May, KME.digital
Leland Rogan and Jake Endres, Crooked Run Brewing
Tahirah Khan, Access National Bank
Kelly McNerney, FJY Financial

Click here to see the partial list of previous ACE Recipients.

About our Keynote Speaker

STEPHEN MORET is president and CEO of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP), the economic development authority for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Prior to VEDP, Moret served as president and CEO of the LSU Foundation, where he crafted a blueprint for the future of development at LSU, preparing the institution to launch the largest capital campaign of any kind in state history. Concurrently he served as executive director of the LSU Property Foundation, working to launch a $180-million, mixed-use real-estate development that will revitalize the western edge of the LSU campus.

From 2008 through early 2015, Moret served as secretary of the Louisiana Department of Economic Development (LED), which he transformed into one of America?s top state economic development agencies. At LED, he directed business development efforts and cultivated higher education partnerships that helped secure a diverse array of economic development projects in urban and rural communities, including software/IT centers (e.g., CGI, CSC, GE Capital, and IBM), food/agricultural processing facilities, and a few of the largest foreign direct investment manufacturing projects in U.S. history. Altogether Moret and his team helped secure private-sector capital investments in excess of $62 billion. He also established LED FastStart, which The Economist called ?probably the most notable statewide workforce-development initiative [in America].?

During Moret?s tenure, LED repeatedly was recognized as one of the top-performing state economic development agencies in the U.S., and Louisiana improved to its highest-ever position in every national ranking of state business climates. Business Facilities ranked LED FastStart the best state workforce training program in the U.S. every year from 2009 through 2015.

Moret previously served as president and CEO of the Baton Rouge Area Chamber of Commerce; a management consultant with McKinsey & Company; a public policy fellow with the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana (a good-government think tank); a consultant to Harvard Business School; assistant to the chancellor of LSU; and an environmental consultant to industry at Trinity Consultants.

Moret earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from LSU and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He earned a doctorate (Ed.D.) in higher education management, with Distinction for Dissertation, from the University of Pennsylvania, where his research focused on linkages between higher education and the labor market in the United States.

Moret resides in Richmond with his wife, Heather, and their four children.

Event marketing opportunities are available!  Promote your business to our members and secure new business leads with a sponsorship.  There are a variety of options for all members to participate!  For more information, please view our list of 2018 ACE Event Marketing Opportunities or contact Ashleigh Dorfman.