Momentum - Business to Business Online Magazine MOMENTUM January 2019 | Page 7

2019 Board of Directors Steve Paterson President & CEO League City Regional Chamber Dawning of a New Era In February of 2019 will mark the publication of the first printed edition of Momentum, which for the past three years was delivered in a digital format to our readers via email. Readership of the digital edition has steadily grown to over that time to 17,000 readers per month and we continue to grow. The magazine has received awards for its content and presentation and has performed as a communications platform to help inform, educate and advocate for our chamber membership as well as the small to medium businesses in our region. If you are reading this column in the first printed edition, you are probably seeing the magazine for the first time. Welcome! You received it by USPS to your place of business to addressed to your attention. We thank you for taking time to read it. Chair, Bill Provenzano HomeTown Bank of League City Treasurer, Chris Premont Ron Carter Cadillac Hyundai Secretary, Rolando Villareal Hilltop Securities Past Chair, Rebecca Lilley Memorial Hermann 2020 Incoming Chair, James Brockway Brockway Realty This first printed issue will be delivered to 5,000 business leaders, owners and operators in Galveston County. You ask why would this chamber of commerce located in League City take the time, expense and effort to produce a product to do this? The answer is quite simple. Bridget Bear South Shore Harbour Resort & Conference Center You can feel it everywhere you drive around our county. There is growth and development in all sectors. Quite simply, our bay area region is becoming a leader in the greater Houston Market. It is the dawning of a new era. The forefront of this explosive growth are the cities of League City, Dickinson, Webster, Friendswood, Clear Lake Shores, Texas City / La Marque and Kemah. Like all areas of explosive growth there needs to be a communications vehicle, which can serve all with the business news about economic development, business education, and necessary information that businesses need and desire, to help understand and grow their businesses. Elga Boeker Houston Methodist St. John Hospital The goal of this venture is to serve up a first-class business publication to help tell the story of Galveston County as it becomes a regional business leader, developer, and destination for innovative technologies. It is our sincere hope you will enjoy each issue that we produce going into the future and please let us know what we can do to furnish the information you need or desire. If you like what we are doing, p l ea s e s h a re a c o p y w i t h o t h e r s o r d i re c t t h e m t o o u r w e b s i t e www.leaguecitychamber where a digital copy of the publication will be available for your reading pleasure. Yes, we will continue to produce the digital copy as well and send it to our 17,000 and growing monthly readers, who we hope will be joined by the readers of the 5,000 copies being mailed each month. How can you help us? If you like to write and would like to share your knowledge on a subject which would benefit our business readers, please reach out to our Editor, Erin Webb, and she will provide the particulars. If you want or desire to tell our now 30,000 plus readers about your business and the products or services you offer, this would be a great place to market or advertise your business to the region. We hope you will enjoy this first copy and take this journey with us as we grow and refine the publication to meet the needs of our partners, businesses, readers and members. Again, thank you and welcome. Please enjoy what will become a quarterly regular feature going forward, which will be our CEO profile. Our first is Michael Nagle of INEOS. We would like to thank Michael and the folks at INEOS for arranging for us this wonderful interview. Until next month, may you prosper. Steve Paterson Deborah Bly RE/MAX Space Center, The Bly Team Justin Gamble Antler Technologies Michelle Hatmaker Real Living, The Hatmaker Group Matthew Mathias Clear Lake Regional Medical Center Kalpesh Patel Hampton Inn & Suites/Candlewood Suites Bryan Schneider, M.D. Advanced Dermatology Debbie Simmons Anchor Point Becky Trout-Unbehagen UTMB Health Peter Wuenschel CIS - Bay Area John Baumgartner Ex-Officio, City of League City Dr. Laura Dupont Ex-Officio, CCISD Amanda Fenwick Ex-Officio, City of Clear Lake Shores Dr. Warren Nichols Ex-Officio, College of the Mainland Dan Seal Ex-Officio, BAHEP Peggy Zahler Ex-Officio, HOA Alliance of League City