Tuesday, May 3, 2011

California Gay & Lesbian Chamber - Orange County 2nd Mixer / Reception

Join us at our 2nd Orange County mixer and reception at the White House Event Center. Our goal is to both introduce the California Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce to Orange County, and to provide a platform from which Orange County LGBT-owned and friendly businesses can connect, network and do business with one another.

Come meet your new Orange County Leadership Team helping us to make this new Orange County group come to fruition. This team includes:

  • Marylou Hunter
  • Stacey O'Bryne [LBCBN]
  • Christina Hernandez
  • Kathy Miller [White House Event Center]
  • Trudi Meyers
  • Michael Spinella [Disney]
  • Gary Graves [Graves Design]
  • Michelle Windhausen
  • Matt Hale [Pirate's Dinner Adventure]
  • Joseph Aldrich [Cypress Group]
  • Ramon Flores [Hilton]
  • Bridget Meade [Hilton]
  • Arnice Lamb [Disney]

Friday, June 3, 2011
6:30 to 9 pm
no-host bar
Cost: none - open to all gay and gay-friendly business folks alike

By bringing together the LGBT business community of Orange County, we believe a true Orange County LGBT Chamber of Commerce can be formed by local LGBT business leaders to serve this important market as well. In the meantime, from this event, we will be scheduling future LGBT business educational workshops and seminars in the Orange County area, as well as hosting additional networking receptions in other regions of Orange County including south Orange County [Irvine, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, etc.] and other regions including Huntington Beach. There are gay and gay-friendly business people in this region and we aim to bring them together!

We have many years of experience in the business-to-business non-profit world, including board chairman and president roles with IGLTA [www.iglta.org], the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce [www.laglcc.org], the Long Beach Community Business Network [www.lbcbn.com] and more. Our team has also been instrumental over the past year in helping to bring together the west coast LGBT Chambers of Commerce at the Pacific LGBT Summit held in Long Beach this past summer, as well as took a lead role in putting together the Pacific LGBT Tourism Summit held in Seattle in January 2011.

We work closely with and partner with the GGBA [San Francisco], the DBA [Desert Business Association], the Long Beach CBN, the LAGLCC and the GSDBA in San Diego. We also have strong relationships and alliances with the LGBT Chambers in Seattle, Dallas, New York and Miami as well as the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce [NGLCC] in Washington, DC.

We hope to bring these relationships and experience to Orange County, working to team up with local LGBT leaders in business including the Orange County LGBT Center and other leading LGBT organizations in the region. From this team effort, the LGBT business community of Orange County will become a force on par with its size and economic strength! Join us in this new-found collaboration and celebration of the Orange County LGBT Business Community!




White House Event Center website: http://www.whitehouseeventcenter.com