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, supporting them through the year by providing and connecting businesses with mentoring, advocacy or collaborators 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, providing regional business development and consulting for the Small Business Development Centre across the Great Southern since 2018 as well as 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 with 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, and now we just need to build things that will create momentum and keep our City on a great trajectory.
We have immense cultural diversity within our community, incredible intellectual diversity in our business community, and natural diversity in our landscape and environmental eco-systems. I can’t wait for us to be able to tie all of these unique aspects together in a way that celebrates those similarities and differences, and directly links us with the rest of the world.