"Food for Thought"

The Emerging Business Leaders facilitate meals with targeted successful leaders of their industry. This will be an opportunity for 8 - 10 young professionals to meet in a small group with some of Western New York's most successful business leaders. The meetings will be held periodically throughout the year at various restaurants around the community. The Chamber will circulate a schedule of hosts, times and locations to EBL members. Participation will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

We kicked-off this event in January 2011 with Dottie Gallagher-Cohen of the Convention & Visitor's Bureau. Other guests in 2011 included: Dr. Donna Fernandes of the Buffalo News, Bill Collins of Travers Collins & Company, Thomas Kucharski of Buffalo Niagara Enterprise, Robert Gioia of The John R. Oishei Foundation, Margaret Sullivan of The Buffalo News, Paul Ciminelli of Ciminelli Development Corporation, former Erie County Executive Chris Collins and Jim Kaskie of Kaleida Health.  The program began 2012 with Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo.

Here is the schedule for our upcoming meals:

• February 22, 2012 at 12:00pm- Jordan Levy of Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation
• March 29, 2012 at 8:00am- Dennis Elsenbeck of National Grid
• April 19, 2012 at 8:00am- Jack Connors of Business First
  

The price of these events is $20 for members and $50 for non-members.

To sign-up for this exciting event, please contact Allison Whalen at 716-632-6905 or awhalen@amherst.org.

For photos from these events, visit the Emerging Business Leaders' Facebook page