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Here’s reason to celebrate — Huntsville is listed in The South’s Best Cities 2023, as designated by readers of Southern Living. The listing mentions the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, plus our thriving arts community, brewing businesses, and coffee shops.

Criterion Solutions and Cummings Aerospace announce the intent to partner on development of defense technology solutions that would be produced and distributed in Australia. Cummings Aerospace is a Native American Woman-Owned Small Business headquartered in Huntsville, Ala.

On February 20, 2023, we were pleased to launch Innovate Huntsville Week with the Entrepreneurs & Innovators Panel, held at the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber. This event was in partnership with Innovate Huntsville and is an initiative of the Chamber’s Economic Inclusion and Diversity work.

The Huntsville/Madison County Chamber hosted its 87th Annual Membership Meeting on Tuesday at the Von Braun Center South Hall. During the event, in his last official act as Chair, the 2022 Board Chair Greg Brown presented the Distinguished Service Award to Rey and Cynthia Almodóvar. 

Here’s the digital version of 2022 Annual Report distributed at the 87th Annual Membership Meeting held on Feb. 7.

Four of our five most recent Chamber board chairs are Alabama natives, primarily from north Alabama. For this first issue of 2023, we invited them to share their perspectives on the changing face of the Rocket City.

Mike Woeber, CPA is Chief Executive Officer of Corporate Tax Advisors, Inc. The company works exclusively with eligible companies to leverage tax incentives as a strategy for growing their businesses. We profile him in our February 2023 issue of Initiatives magazine.

We are very proud to announce that our own Erin Koshut, Executive Director of Cummings Research Park, is the 2023 President of the Association of University Research Parks (AURP) Board of Directors. Congratulations Erin!

Few Alabamians would call Huntsville a hidden gem. After all, it recently became the most populous city in the state. But what exactly does Huntsville—home to more than 216,000 people—have to offer visitors?

We would like to welcome a new member to the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber team! Lakeysha Brown joined our staff on December 12, 2022 as our new Director of Member Engagement. If she looks familiar, Lakeysha has served as our Lead Ambassador for the last three years in our Chamber Ambassador Program.

Here’s an updated list of the Huntsville-area companies that have earned the designation! If you haven’t taken the assessment yet, we encourage you to do so today!

Michael Kirkpatrick is Chairman/CEO of DESE Research, Inc., one of Huntsville’s oldest family owned and family managed small businesses in the defense and aerospace markets. We profile him in our December 2022 issue of Initiatives magazine.