Small Business Breakfast with Queens DA Melinda Katz | Queens Chamber of Commerce on Glue Up

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Save the dateSeptember 28, 20228:30 AM - 10:00 AM (EDT) Add to Calendar

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Queens Chamber of Commerce

75-20 Astoria Boulevard, Suite 140
Jackson Heights, New York

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Organizer

Organizer: Queens Chamber of Commerce, Queens District Attorney

Phone: +1 7188988500

Contact Person: Jef Gross

Email: jgross@queenschamber.org

Event Details

Queens Chamber is proud to host a Small Business Breakfast with special guest Queens DA Melinda Katz. During this event small business owners will meet and greet with DA Katz. In addition, she'll provide remarks on office-related initiatives.

Continental breakfast will be provided.

Space is limited.

Mark your calendar and register to join us.

Speakers

Melinda Katz

Queens District Attorney

Melinda Katz

Queens District Attorney

http://www.queensda.org/index.html

Melinda Katz was born and raised in Forest Hills, and is a product of our public school system. She has been a public servant for over 20 years.

After graduating with honors from the University of Massachusetts, District Attorney Katz attended St. John’s School of Law. Upon earning her law degree, she interned for future US Attorney General Michael Mukasey in the Southern District of NY and the Legal Aid Society.

District Attorney Katz served in private practice until she was elected to serve in the Assembly in 1994. As an Assemblymember, she authored and passed crucial legislation to protect the most vulnerable in our community. Her efforts resulted in laws that extended the Statute of Limitations for victims of child sexual abuse, provided women direct access to gynecologists and increased to a felony certain classes of endangerment of the welfare of a child. She also co-sponsored and fought for laws to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and to establish and strengthen hate crime legislation.

As a member of the New York City Council from 2002 to 2009, District Attorney Katz served as Chair of the influential Land Use Committee, using her legal background and community ties to steward major projects that helped pull New York City out of the 2001 recession. Under her leadership, the Committee championed zoning measures that paved the way for redevelopment projects in all five boroughs, while safeguarding communities from overdevelopment.

District Attorney Katz has extensive experience in private practice, working as a litigator for Weil Gotshal and as a shareholder of Greenberg Traurig, a position she held until her election as the 19th Borough President of Queens.

As Queens Borough President, she worked to seal certain misdemeanor and non-violent felony convictions and grant warrant forgiveness to promote second chances in the communities most affected by mass incarceration.

Her father, David, was the founder and conductor of the Queens Symphony Orchestra and her mother, Jeanne, was the founder of the Queens Council for the Arts.

District Attorney Katz is raising her two children, Carter and Hunter, in the same Forest Hills home in which she grew up.

Thomas J. Grech

President & CEO of Queens Chamber of Commerce

Thomas J. Grech

President & CEO of Queens Chamber of Commerce

http://www.queenschamber.org

Tom’s career has spanned the printing and publishing industries over the past 25 years with RR Donnelley & Sons Company, Merrill Corporation and SONY DADC. For the past five years, he has been involved in the energy industry. Most recently, Tom was Director of Sales for CCI Energy Solutions, Inc.

His other interests include investing in multi-family real estate, adviser to non-profit and for-profit boards.

Originally from Astoria, Tom lives in Malverne, NY with his wife and their daughter and son. He is a graduate of the University of Scranton, Scranton, PA with a BS in Accounting and received his MBA in International Business from Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY.

He has served as President & CEO of Queens Chamber of Commerce since July of 2015.

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