About Us

Message From the President & CEO

Welcome to the Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce online community!

Your Chamber is dedicated to providing strong, continued service to over 1700 members in one of Canada's marquee pioneering and entrepreneurial business community. For the past 125 years, dating back to the Chamber's founding as the Berlin Board of Trade, we have expanded into one of the largest and innovative Chamber in Canada by focusing on the needs of all our members, big and small.

In everything we do we strive to on our four core pillars that you have told us are important to you: 

Networking - Chamber Connections, Networking Breakfast Series

Education - Knightsbridge Leadership Series, Social Media Starter Kit

Member Rewards - Cowan One Source Advantage, Esso Business Discount Program

Advocacy - Physician Recruitment, Prosperity Council, Federal & Provincial Government Advocacy

As 2012 begins we will continue adding and improving to all of these pillars most notably our doubling of the number of programs in our Member Rewards all aimed at lessening the cost of doing business and also make your organization as optimized as possible.

We at the Chamber strive to connect with the members we serve and the entire business community. Feel free to contact any of the Chamber staff on how we can improve our ability to serve and enable your business and community prosperity. At the Chamber we believe that business and the community should work together to build a stable and flourishing economy as we look to continue Waterloo Region's success at Business Building Community.

I appreciate you visiting the Chamber website and your interest in learning more about Waterloo Region's business community.

 

Ian McLean
President & CEO
Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce

Click here to view Ian's most recent State of the Chamber Update