OC business expo a hot attraction

Orange County”™s Chamber of Commerce kicked off the fall season with the region”™s first business-to-business expo, a one day event held Sept. 16 that packed Anthony”™s Pier 9 in New Windsor. It not only gave businesses a chance to talk to others about upgrading, integrating and downgrading current needs, but many came armed with resumes hoping to find a job. Among the visitors and exhibitors:

 

Visitors and business owners had a chance to exchange information about new opportunities  in the marketplace during the daylong event.

 

Bill Sestrom, owner of Verizon Wireless Zone of New Windsor.

 

 

Rebecca Lust, arts coordinator, and Susan Cayea, executive director, both promoting the arts and tourism in Orange County, with offices based in Goshen.

 

Bill Tuthill, district sales, and Kevin Marrin, account executive, Toshiba Business Solutions, Newburgh.

 

Virginia Quackenbush, sales manager, and Bill Tremont, VOIP training director, WVT Communications, Warwick.

 

 

Ann Marie Khafeel, account executive, McAleer & Associates, Newburgh.

 

Michael Withal, sales & marketing coordinator  for Coffee System of the Hudson Valley, Rifton, markets the joy of the perfect cup of coffee or latte to Tiffany Stewart, an instructor at Ridley Lowell Business & Technical Institute, Poughkeepsie.

Doug Winrow, membership development officer, and Christina Contreras, teller, Mid Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, headquartered in Kingston.

 

 

Erin Weddell, marketing coordinator, Vanacore, DeBenedictus, DiGovanni & Weddell CPAS, Newburgh.

 

Juan Paneto, assistant vice president, and Dan Bobcock, marketing advisor, Key Bank, Newburgh.

 

Dave Kahn of Hudson Baylor Recycling Corp. in Newburgh talks to Wendy McWitt, “Ready by 21” coordinator, Orange County United Way, Montgomery.