Detroit Mayor Ken Cockrel to Speak at Lebanese American Chamber of Commerce Winter Leadership Luncheon at Skyline Club

posted on: Jan 30, 2009

The Lebanese American Chamber of Commerce announced today that Detroit’s new Mayor Kenneth V. Cockrel, Jr., will lead the Winter Leadership Luncheon Series as its first speaker next month. The event will take place on Thursday, February 5th, at the Skyline Club located on the 28th floor of the Southfield Town Center overlooking the city’s landscape. Many of the region’s top business, civic and academic leaders will gather to hear the Mayor’s address to Chamber officials and members. The successful speaker series was launched in 2005 by Chamber President & CEO John Akouri. In 2009, the Chamber will expand the series to include Media, CEO and Newsmaker programs.

Past speakers at Chamber functions have included U.S. Ambassador Sam Zakhem, U.S. Senators John Sununu and Carl Levin, U.S. Representatives Mike Rogers, Candice Miller, Thaddeus McCotter, and Charles Boustany, NASCAR Legend Bobby Rahal, Actress/Director Nadine Labaki, Cardinal Adam Maida, Ford CEO Jacques Nasser, General Motors Chief Economist G. Mustafa Mohatarem, FOX-2 News Business Editor Murray Feldman, Windsor, Canada Mayor Eddie Francis, Supreme Court Chief Justice Clifford W. Taylor, Attorney General Mike Cox, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, Wayne County Executive Robert A. Ficano, Fmr. Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer, GOP National Committeeman Keith Butler, U.S. Army General Mark A. Montjar, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James Kaddo, and Al Hurra Television Chief Pentagon Correspondent Joe Tabet, among others.

The national Lebanese American Chamber of Commerce is a non-profit national business organization headquartered in Michigan with with members nationwide and offices in Detroit, New York, Houston, Chicago & Washington, DC. The Chamber serves to actively develop, promote and advance Lebanese American business and to enhance the economic, social, educational, trade and cultural interests by providing leadership, legislative advocacy, social and philanthropic activities, business networking, special projects and the exchange of business and information. It also seeks to promote economic growth and development, expand business opportunities and heighten awareness between the Lebanese and American communities throughout the United States and Lebanon operating as an American, Michigan-based non-profit corporation linking business professionals locally, nationally, and globally.