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The Greenwich Chamber of Commerce”™s July After Six event drew more than 100 chamber members and their guests to the sun-dappled patio of the Hyatt Regency Greenwich in Old Greenwich recently for cocktails, lobster rolls, chicken croquettes and ”” for the daring ”” fresh-made s”™mores.
Chamber President Marcia O”™Kane, whose force-of-nature enthusiasm drives and enlivens chamber events, was away on family matters. The chamber”™s Jim Hohorst, a three-year board member and the current board chairman and principal at Student Employment Software LLC, filled in, making the rounds and greeting guests.
“Our goal is to help our members grow their businesses,” Hohorst said. “We rely a lot on what Marcia (O”™Kane) calls A-P-C-E: advocate, promote, connect and educate. Tonight is all about the connection.
“Businesses join for different reasons and that thinking generally changes over time,” he said. “The thinking when they join is to become part of the business community ”” the connection part. Many also have a strong desire to give back to the community. Once they are involved with the chamber, they look to us to promote their businesses and to introduce their products and services.”
Hohorst said chamber get-togethers provide showcases for sponsors. The Hyatt sponsor was Ethan Allen Retail Inc. on West Main Street in Stamford. (The company”™s international headquarters is in Danbury.) Catharine Gallagher, design center manager, and Beth McCaskey, design project manager, represented the company.
Hohorst”™s company provides software that supports employment and intern opportunities for high school students in Fairfield and Westchester counties.
