The Salt Lake Chamber will hold its 2024 Annual Meeting on September 17, releasing its annual report and honoring individuals and organizations who have demonstrated exceptional support to advance the Chamber’s mission and bolster the business community over the past year.
“Our Annual Meeting is an opportunity to recognize the strength of Utah’s business community,” says Derek Miller, president and CEO of the Salt Lake Chamber. “The Salt Lake Chamber has been part of several groundbreaking initiatives through the years, and it’s because of business and community leaders like those we’re recognizing this year that we continue to see Utah grow and prosper. We thank these individuals for their dedication, hard work and innovative solutions, and we look forward to seeing the business community continue to thrive and build a prosperous future for all.”
Honorees for the event will include the following organizations and individuals:
President’s Award for Excellence: KSL
Honors an individual or organization selected by the president & CEO
Legacy Award: Jacobsen Construction Company
Honors a long-standing business in Utah
Fortitude Award: Delta Air Lines
Honors a corporate business in Utah
Beehive Award: Sunroc Corporation
Honors an organization that helps build our community through volunteerism
Opportunity Award: Alpha Coffee
Honors a small business in Utah
Icon Award: Blendyd Studios
Honors a woman-owned business in Utah
Trailblazer Award
Honors “rising stars” in our community
- Rep. Tyler Clancy, District 60, Utah State House of Representatives
- Madison Keyser Williams, Director of Corporate Development, Utah Paperbox
Chamber Champions
Honors exceptional Chamber volunteers
- Lucy Knight Andre, General Counsel, Stadler US Inc.
- Dori Clark, Marketing Division Sales Manager, Lagoon Corporation
- TJ England, Chief Legal Officer, C.R. England
- Kimberly Flores, Co-founder, fulFILLed Lifestyle Co.
- Kamea Johnson, Owner, Chosen Creative
- Lee Weech, Vice President of Sales, Executech
The Annual Meeting & Awards Luncheon will be held on September 17, 2024, at the Salt Lake City Marriott Downtown at City Creek.
Learn more on the Salt Lake Chamber website.
Honoree information below:
President’s Award for Excellence: KSL
The KSL brands — whether TV, radio or .com — have been synonymous with trust since its inception. Though KSL’s digital or mobile offerings and how people consume information have changed significantly over the years, creating a trusted, local experience has remained constant. Each KSL brand — from an online marketplace to local news and programmatic media solutions — brings people together to share information and other things they need. Connecting communities is at the heart of everything KSL does.
Legacy Award: Jacobsen Construction Company
Jacobsen Construction Company was founded in 1922 in Salt Lake City by Danish immigrant Soren Jacobsen. More than a century later, with over $1 billion in annual revenue, Jacobsen’s history of signature projects includes the Utah State Capitol seismic reinforcement and historical restoration, City Creek Center, Provo City Center Temple, Primary Children’s Hospital campus in Lehi and many more. Jacobsen builds more than structures, its 800 employee-owners create the places where life happens; its promises, projects and partnerships are truly, ‘Built for Life.’
Fortitude Award: Delta Air Lines
As the leading global airline, Delta‘s mission to connect the world creates opportunities, fosters understanding and expands horizons by connecting people and communities to each other and to their own potential. Delta is Salt Lake City’s largest global carrier, offering more flights out of Utah than all-other carriers combined, with more than 230 peak-day departures to nearly 90 destinations across the globe, including nonstop service to trans-Atlantic destinations like Amsterdam, London and Paris.
Beehive Award: Sunroc Corporation
Since 1937, Sunroc Corporation (originally Utah Service) has offered quality construction services to municipalities, state agencies and professional contractors throughout the Intermountain West. Sunroc is proud to provide time-tested materials and services, including ready-mix concrete, asphalt, aggregates, masonry, earthwork, utility construction and asphalt paving. As a subsidiary of Clyde Companies, they are ‘Building a Better Community’ with a dedication to safety, sustainability and quality construction services and products.
Opportunity Award: Alpha Coffee
Alpha Coffee is a veteran and woman co-owned company dedicated to offering customers awesome coffee, promoting the warrior lifestyle, providing the highest levels of service and giving back to veterans, the planet and the community. Founded by Carl and Lori Churchill on September 11, 2010, Alpha Coffee has grown to two shops in the Salt Lake City area, along with selling online to customers in all 50 states and military personnel across the world.
Icon Award: Blendyd Studios
Founded in 2023, Blendyd Studios, Inc. is a software firm modernizing recruiting in the trucking industry by building next-generation technologies to maximize operational efficiencies and provoke new conversations around the future of talent acquisition. Specifically, Blendyd Studios empowers freight carriers to find, nurture and hire the best drivers. Their Applicant Tracking System (ATS) leverages the power of AI to automate candidate screening, streamline communication and modernize the candidate experience.
Trailblazer Award
- Rep. Tyler Clancy, District 60, Utah State House of Representatives
Representative Tyler Clancy represents House District 60, which encompasses BYU, along with parts of Downtown and East Provo. Sworn in at 25, he is the youngest person elected to the Legislature since 1834. Since his election, Rep. Clancy has worked hard to represent his neighbors in Provo, taking on hard issues such as homelessness, public safety and mental health. Already building a reputation as an effective and serious lawmaker, he has sponsored over ten bills signed into law after serving in only two sessions. Rep. Clancy also serves the community as a Provo Police officer and is lucky to be married to the love of his life, Leah.
- Madison Keyser Williams, Director of Corporate Development, Utah Paperbox
Madison Keyser Williams is the Director of Corporate Development at Utah Paperbox, overseeing HR, supplier audits and marketing/PR. She began her HR career in 2018 with Zions Bancorporation and Amazon before joining her family’s business in 2022 as the fifth generation. Keyser Willams, who holds an Economics degree from the University of Utah and a Master of Project Management from Boston University, is set to follow in her father’s footsteps as the company’s future President.
Chamber Champions
- Lucy Knight Andre, General Counsel, Stadler US Inc.
Lucy Knight Andre serves as the General Counsel, Chief of Staff and Corporate Secretary of Stadler US Inc. in Salt Lake City, Utah. Since joining Stadler in 2016, she has helped oversee the setup and expansion of Stadler’s North American operations. Andre has seen the company grow from 8 full-time employees to over 450, build and fill a 250,000-square foot manufacturing facility and secure over $2 billion in orders. A native of Salt Lake City, Andre obtained a bachelor’s degree from Webster University in Vienna, Austria, and was employed there as an editor for the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis before returning to Salt Lake City to earn a law degree from the University of Utah. She has since worked as a college professor, a prosecutor, a partner at a law firm and as in-house counsel for multiple organizations. A passionate advocate of transit and a believer in enhancing local communities, Andre also participates on many corporate and community boards and is actively involved in a variety of non-profit organizations. In her spare time, she loves to cook, travel and spend time with her husband and four children.
- Dori Clark, Marketing Division Sales Manager, Lagoon Corporation
Dori Clark is a Marketing Division Sales Manager at Lagoon in Farmington, Utah, and has been there for 23 years. Clark has been in the Marketing/Group Sales Office for the past 14 years and focuses on scheduling and facilitating FUN and successful corporate events. In this position, Clark has had the opportunity to serve within the community in many capacities, including serving on the Salt Lake Chamber’s Women & Business Conference Committee and previously as the Vice-Chair and Chair of the Davis Chamber Leadership Institute Committee. When Clark is not having fun at work, she treasures time spent with all of her family, most especially, her husband of 39 years, their miracle daughter, son-in-law and granddaughters who are all the light of her life.
- TJ England, Chief Legal Officer, C.R. England
TJ England is the Chief Legal Officer at C.R. England, Inc., which is one of the nation’s largest freight carriers. England manages C.R. England’s legal department and oversees all legal, regulatory, human resources and labor relations matters. England serves as a member of the American Trucking Association’s Litigation Center Board of Directors. Prior to C.R. England, England was in private practice at the Utah law firm of Ray Quinney & Nebeker.
- Kimberly Flores, Co-founder, fulFILLed Lifestyle Co.
Kimberly Flores is the co-founder of fulFILLed Lifestyle Co., a zero-waste store and refill shop located in Park City, Utah. With a mission to simplify low-waste living, fulFILLed offers refillable household cleaning and personal care products as well as hundreds of package-free goods to those looking to live a life with less plastic. Before diving head on into entrepreneurship, Flores was the Public Relations Manager at Waterford.org. Prior to her work with the early education nonprofit, Flores was the Director of Public Relations and Communication at the Salt Lake Chamber. For nearly 15 years, Flores was a television news journalist who won multiple awards for her breaking news and environmentally-focused investigative reports.
- Kamea Johnson, Owner, Chosen Creative
Kamea Johnson is the owner and operator of Chosen Creative Stationery and the Utah Letter Writing Club. She is also the author of “Identity Mark,” which focuses on understanding misplaced identity in America, herd mentality and the effects of groupthink. Johnson’s specialty is working with startups, SMEs, businesses and leaders to craft personal and brand identity and to translate their value proposition in the marketplace effectively. She is an Instructional Design & Training Development Specialist: building, teaching and facilitating various entrepreneurial business cohorts, workshops and training for organizations, including Salt Lake Community College, Women’s Business Center of Utah and the Salt Lake Chamber. Johnson’s career and life path has been centered in sales, finance, talent coaching and development of large sales teams, mindset and behavior training, and entrepreneurial education.
- Lee Weech, Vice President of Sales, Executech
Lee Weech is the Vice President of Sales for Executech, having worked helping clients find solutions for Managed IT, Security and Cloud-based solutions throughout the Western states for eight years. Weech is originally from San Diego and moved to Utah in 2005. Along with his two kids, Jackson and Kara, they enjoy a very active life together including ATV riding, skiing, golf, hiking, paddle boarding and traveling. Weech enjoys giving back to the community as the former chair of the Salt Lake Chamber’s President’s Ambassadors and volunteers within the Daybreak community in South Jordan, UT.
