Ambassador
As the CEO of the Albany Chamber of Commerce and Industry my role is to connect our members and business community with opportunities linked to Albany 2026. I will be helping businesses prepare, support them through the year by providing or connecting businesses with other mentoring, advocacy or collaborations that will help them to grow their organisation smoothly and sustainably.
Coming from a regional town myself and building a new and innovative business there, doing regional business development and consulting for Small Business Development Centre across the Great Southern since 2018 and being a small business owner myself, I understand the challenges and demands of being a business owner and operator.
2026 will also see an influx of people to Albany, so I see it as a chance for us to be brave and try new things as we will have a bigger group of consumers and buyers, so I am looking forward to seeing how our business community takes advantage of this. Albany has so much opportunity, so now we just have to build the things that will create momentum and keep our City on a great trajectory.
We have immense cultural diversity in our community, incredible intellectual diversity in our business community and diversity in our landscape and environmental eco-systems. I can’t wait for us to be able to tie it all together in a way that celebrates those similarities and differences, and directly links us with the rest of the world.