President / CEO
Thomas P. Kelley

Thomas P. Kelley will begin his third year as President/CEO of the Camarillo Chamber of Commerce in September 2004.

Associations. Tom is on the Board of Regents of Western Institute, Tucson (Institute of Organization Management-US Chamber of Commerce), is Chair of the Legislative Alliance of Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, serves as Secretary on the Board of the Southern California Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (SCACCE), and is a member of Western Association of Chamber Executives. He is also a member of the Camarillo Rotary.

Past chambers of commerce experience. Tom has eleven years experience in Chamber of Commerce management positions. Prior to Camarillo he was President/CEO of the 1150-member Sedona-Oak Creek Canyon Chamber of Commerce, and managed Sedona Destination Marketing, the visitor bureau for the area. He came to Sedona from Williams, AZ, where he was Executive Director of the Williams-Grand Canyon Chamber of Commerce.

While in Northern Arizona, Tom was instrumental in forming the Arizona Tourism Alliance, a statewide association of organizations and businesses, and the Northern Arizona Marketing Coalition, serving as its chair from 1999 to 2001.

Business experience. Prior to his chamber management career, Tom spent many years in marketing and management positions of consumer product companies in California, Pennsylvania and Arizona. He was Vice President, Marketing of the Grand Canyon Railway. In California, Kelley was president of Hexol, a San Francisco company that makes household cleaning products, and he spent 15 years in the California wine industry including as VP and general manager of one of California highest volume wineries.

Education. He received a MBA from Stanford University and a BS from University of Minnesota. Tom has graduated from the Institute for Organization Management, four-year program of the US Chamber of Commerce at the University of Arizona, and has taken many courses in economic development and chamber management.

Facilitator and teacher. Tom Kelley facilitates planning retreats for other chambers and non-profit organizations and he gives seminars and workshops on marketing planning and marketing techniques.
Tom Kelley grew up in Minneapolis and he served four years in the US Air Force, departing at the rank of Captain.

tomkelley@camarillochamber.org