For Immediate Release

Contact:
Scott Alevy
Vice President, Public Policy & Communications
San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce
(619) 544-1360

January 28, 2008


The Chamber's Annual Dinner, presented by AT&T, will be held on Thursday, January 31, 2008, at the San Diego Convention Center. The Annual Dinner is one of San Diego's most established business traditions, bringing a "Who's Who" of over 1,000 local business and government leaders together for a night of networking. This year's program will feature the induction of the Chamber's 2008 Chairman of the Board, Phil Blair of Manpower Staffing Services, as well as the entire 2008 Board of Directors, followed by dinner, a networking reception and awards ceremony recognizing community leaders with awards based on outstanding performance and dedication to business.

The Annual Dinner will be held at the San Diego Convention Center at 111 West Harbor Drive, in Ballroom 20 C&D, from 5:00pm to 8:00pm. Individual registrations are $150. Get more information or register online.

The Chamber is pleased to announce the 2008 Board of Directors:

Richard L. Alderson, San Diego Padres Baseball Club
Ruben Barrales, San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce
Joseph Benoit, Union Bank of California
Charles E. Black, CB Urban Development
Phil Blair, Manpower Staffing Services
Thella F. Bowens,* San Diego County Regional Airport Authority
Dennis Burks,* Burks Associates
Brittain Cheney, The Irvine Company
Nikki Clay, Carpi & Clay
Larry Clemens, Barratt American
Denise Cooper, Anheuser-Busch Sales of San Diego
Gina Cunningham, Cunningham BMW
Steven D. Davis, Sempra Energy
Theresa J. Drew, Deloitte & Touche LLP
William W. Eigner, Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
Walter F. Ekard, County of San Diego
Andrew Fichthorn, Seaworld San Diego
Stephen Fluhr, Westfield LLC
Chris Frahm, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Randy C. Frisch, San Diego Union-Tribune
Gary Gallegos,* SANDAG
Benjamin A. Haddad, California Strategies
John J. Haines, HSBC Auto Finance
Chuck Hansen, Viejas Enterprises
Sherman D. Harmer, Jr., Urban Housing Partners, Inc.
John Hawkins, Cloud 9 Supershuttle
Karen S. Haynes,* California State University San Marcos
Paul J. Hering, Barney & Barney, LLC
RADM Leendert R. Hering, Sr., Usn,* Navy Region Southwest
Bruce Hollingsworth,* San Diego Unified Port District
Robert B. Horsman, San Diego National Bank
Karen Hutchens, Hutchens PR
Keith Jones, Ace Parking Managment, Inc.
Herbert G. Klein, National Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
June Komar, Scripps Health
Rodney N. Lanthorne, Kyocera International, Inc.
Len J. Lauer, Qualcomm
Richard S. Ledford, Ledford Enterprises, Inc.
Mark Leslie, AT&T
John Mcneece, Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP
Bryan B. Min, Epsilon Systems Solutions, Inc.
Vincent E. Mudd, San Diego Office Interiors
Michael W. Murphy, Sharp Healthcare
Christopher B. Neils, Esq.,* Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
David Ohanian, Bank of America
David Peckinpaugh,* San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau
Lawrence B. Prior, III, SAIC
Ted Roth, Roth Capital Partners
Dennis Ryan, Pfizer La Jolla Laboratories
Bgen. Angela Salinas, USMC,* MCRD/WRR
Doug Sawyer, United Way of San Diego County
Robert Smith, General Dynamics Nassco
Susan Snow, Susan Snow Consulting
Maureen Stapleton, San Diego County Water Authority
Jim Steeg, San Diego Chargers
Lorin Stewart,* Old Town Trolley Tours of San Diego
Daniel J. Tucker, Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation
Thomas V. Wornham, Wells Fargo Bank
Julie Meier Wright,* San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation

* Ex Officio

Sponsors for this event include:

Title sponsor: AT&T
Award Sponsors: Kaiser Permanente, Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation

Founded in 1870, the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce is a nonprofit organization with the goal of promoting the business interests of its more than 3,000 member companies, while increasing the international region's prosperity.