News & Blog UPDATE

Member Spotlight

Jacques Momperousse - Edward Jones

Jacques is a Financial Advisor with Edward Jones who works with small businesses, and individuals to accomplish their goals. Jacques believes that whether you are saving for retirement, a new home, sending kids, or grand kids, to college has its challenges, and he is here to help you get through those difficult challenges.

Jacques served nine years in the US Navy onboard the USS Peleliu where he earned three Navy and Marine Corp achievement medals.  After leaving service he has been giving back to the community through events such as the Walk to End Alzheimer's, The Walk to End Human sex trafficking, donating his time and to help struggling families through his church in San Diego, and reaching out the community through the Chamber of Commerce and Exchange Club of Laguna Hills.

Jacques is series 7 and 66 licensed and registered as an investment advisor representative through the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Jacques will be our speaker at the Nov 8th networking lunch. He will be be sharing Investment strategies and providing some current market commentary.

News You Can Use

Join us as we congratulate James Rocke in taking on an expanded role
with the Laguna Hills Chamber as our first Executive Director.



James has been a chamber board member and a Laguna Hills business owner for several years. He has previous experience overseeing a non-profit organization and he was the founding charter president of a community based service and business networking group. Having recently sold his business, James was available to step up and assist the chamber with expanding and refining our current initiatives

Under the direction of our board of directors, James will oversee and coordinate the daily operations of the chamber and will focus on enhancing our member experience, expanding our current program offerings, increasing our community outreach and growing our overall membership base. While this is only a part time role, we are excited about our momentum and the direction the chamber continues to head in. 
   
For any suggestions or membership requests, James can be reached directly at:
949-533-7378 and/or exedir@lagunahillschamber.com

Your Directors and Officers beginning Jan 2019!

Each year in September, our Nominating Committee is tasked with creating a Slate of Candidates, selected and vetted from our currently seated board members to fill the Board Officer roles for the coming calendar year. As we mentioned in our "News You Can Use" section above, we will be installing our new Officers at our State of the City event on January 10th, 2019. 

Introducing your January 2019 Directors & Officers Leadership Team
Carl Heft - President
Sheri Feinberg - Vice President
Patrice Mills - Treasurer
Lori Renaud - Secretary
Clement Pepe - Director (Immediate Past President)
Jake Anderson - Director
James Rocke - Director

As we continue to grow we will keep working to identify, recruit and develop other members who are willing and able to take on an active role on the board to assist us as we improve and expand our chamber offerings. If you see yourself being able to add something and would like to get involved, please contact our Nominating Committee Chair at: exedir@lagunahillschamber.com

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This is an exciting time to be a member of the Laguna Hills Chamber of Commerce. As we head into the end of the calendar year and the start of the holiday season (save the date for our holiday mixer: 12/13/18!), your chamber leadership is not resting on our many accomplishments of 2018, instead we are hard at work behind the scenes gearing up and planning now for another banner year in 2019!

We have lots of things on tap for 2019. Our signature State of the City event will be held in January, which will include an installation ceremony for our newly elected Board Officers starting their 2019 term. We have some brand new community events we are planning for next summer. We will continue to expand and strengthen our support for several City of Laguna Hills events, including the Memorial Day Half Marathon, the 4th of July Celebration and of course National Night Out, which we co-sponsored this year with the Sheriff's department.

  We will continue to have our Strictly Networking Breakfast meeting, our monthly Networking Lunch meeting, along with our Monthly Member and Chamber Sponsored mixers, as well as our bonus Grand Opening, Ribbon Cutting and Anniversary/Milestone celebrations, which everyone enjoys so much! We have recently added a monthly Lunch and Learn series as another added benefit.

With each passing month and year, we will continue to add more events, increase member programing, education and networking opportunities to help you grow and strengthen your business.

If you have any requests, suggestions or if you would like to take on a more active role in the chamber as an ambassador, committee member or more, please reach out and let us know!

2019 Here we grow!