30th Season Kick Off Event! Tuesday, September 15, 2015
The 30th Season of the Portland Community Chamber of Commerce's Monthly Business Breakfast will kick off on Tuesday, September 15, 2015 with a presentation of the Economic Scorecard, and featured Keynote, John "Jock" McKernan.
The morning agenda:
7:00 Coffee + Networking
7:25 Breakfast is served
7:55 Introduction from Quincy Hentzel, President, Portland Community Chamber of Commerce
8:00 Presentation of the Economic Scorecard from Jack Lufkin, Chair, Economic and City Affairs Committee, Portland Community Chamber of Commerce
8:15 Keynote
8:45 Question + Answer Session
9:00 Event ends
About the Keynote speaker: Governor John McKernan
Former Maine Governor John McKernan serves as Senior Advisor to the US Chamber of Commerce and US Chamber of Commerce Foundation, where he served as the Foundation President until March 2015. He is also Chairman and CEO of consulting and investment firms McKernan Enterprises, Inc. and Nottingham Equity, Inc. in Portland, Maine. Until August 2012, he was chairman of the board of directors of Education Management Corporation where he served as CEO from 2003 to 2007.
Governor McKernan currently serves on the Boards of Directors of BorgWarner, Inc.; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Management and Training Corporation (MTC); and the American Action Forum, a Washington, D.C. policy institute. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Maine’s Community Colleges. He also serves as a member of Ceannate Corp’s Advisory Board.
He served for two terms in the United States Congress from 1983 to 1987 and then as Maine’s 71st Governor for two four-year terms from 1987 to 1995. During his two terms as Governor of Maine, Governor McKernan won national recognition for leadership and innovation in education and human resources. He has served as Chairman of the Education Commission of the States and the National Education Goals Panel and was recognized as an Outstanding Governor by the American Society for Training and Development. He is also the author of Making the Grade, a book on youth apprenticeship.
Governor McKernan is a graduate of Dartmouth College (B.A. ’70) and the University of Maine School of Law. (J.D. ’74)
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