Chattanooga Chamber searching for new CEO
The executive committee of the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce board of directors has selected the consulting firm Waverly Partners to help in the search for a new chamber chief executive to succeed Christy Gillenwater, who announced last month she is leaving the Chattanooga chamber after five years to head the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce.
Waverly Partners will work with the chamber’s search committee to develop a profile with the experience and leadership characteristics of the chamber’s preferred candidate. Waverly Partners consultants Eric Peterson of Cleveland, Ohio, and Debbie Galbraith of Kansas City, Missouri, will work with the search committee in the recruitment and evaluation of candidates from the local, regional and national marketplace.
Tom White, who recently retired from Unum as a senior vice president of investor relations who served as the chamber’s chairman in 2009, will lead a seven-member CEO search committee, according to a chamber’s announcement Monday.
“I’m pleased to announce our Chattanooga chamber president and CEO search committee and our decision to work with Waverly Partners, a highly respected national search firm,” Janelle Reilly, president of CHI Memorial Hospital and chairwoman of the Chattanooga chamber, said in the statement. “It’s important that we share with members the broad strokes of the search process, which aligns with our continued commitment to our mission to champion member businesses and promote regional economic growth.”