March 2016 - Vol. 16 - No. 3 - Chamber Newsletter

Sep 17, 2026

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March 2016 issue (Vol. 16, No. 3) of the Anderson County Chamber of Commerce newsletter highlights staff promotions and leadership appointments. It introduces Chamber elect Tom Bundy to the board and outlines his background in quality management and agriculture. The Member Focus profiles Advanced Management, Inc., its HR and organizational development mission, training and consulting services, and assessment tools. The issue also includes partners’ updates and a structured table of contents for upcoming Chamber activities.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages8

Reading Time20 min

AccessFree to download

Table of Contents

Chamber Elects Bundy

Partners in the News

Chamber Calendar

Chamber at Work

Annual Business Luncheon

Members in the News

Community Partners

March 2016 Vol. 16, No. 3 President Announces Staff Promotions Chamber President Rick Meredith has announced the following staff promotions: Janet S. Hawkins, Executive Vice President; Norm Nelson, Director of Membership and Kim Mitchell, Director of Marketing. Hawkins, formerly the Director of Administration and Finance, will head up the Chamber’s Retail Development Initiative and serve as liaison to the Business Development Committee, Education Workforce Development Committee and the Youth Leadership Anderson County Board of Directors. With the Chamber for over 13 years, Hawkins is also a member of ICSC and TCCE. Married to Dan, they have three Hawkins grown children and two grandchildren. Nelson, formerly Membership Ac count Executive, will be in charge of the Chamber’s Public Relations efforts, coordinate Member Services as well as serve as liaison to the PR/Events Committee and the Leadership Anderson County Board of Di rectors. He has been with the Chamber for over a year and was also recently appointed Chairman of Tennessee State Rehabilitation Council. Married to Tina, they have two grown daughters. Mitchell, formerly Administrative Assistant for the Chamber, will direct the Chamber’s Events and serve as liaison to the PR/Events Committee and the Chamber Ambassadors. Mitchell has been with the Chamber for over three years. Married to Kent, they have three grown children. Chamber Elects Tom Bundy to Board Mr. Tom Bundy, Quality Manager supporting the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (CCSD) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been elected to serve on the Anderson County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. He has over 28 years of experience in all aspects of quality management, much of which came from global positions in automotive manufacturing. He has held leadership roles in procurement, supplier quality, quality auditing, product quality and quality systems development Mr. Bundy holds degrees in Agricul- tural Engineering (BS) and Agricultural Economics (MS), both from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is an active member of the Leadership Anderson County Board of Directors, graduating in 2014. He has served on the Leadership Board since 2015. Tom lives in Clinton with his wife, Sherry, a schoolteacher at Andersonville Elementary. They have a daughter, Jessee who is an attorney practicing in Knoxville. Tom and Sherry most enjoy worship, study and serving their community through their church. The Bundys feel very blessed to live and serve in Anderson County. Member Focus: Advanced Management Advanced Management, Inc. (AMI) was established in Oak Ridge, Anderson County on October 1, 1988 by Stacy Myers. Its mission was to provide Human Resource Development and Organizational Development services to companies to enhance their management of their human resources and ﬁnancial performance. AMI has experience and expertise in a wide variety of HRD efforts and can conduct a complete training needs analysis using a variety of effective techniques. Over the past 28 years AMI has developed over 50 training programs that have been offered to literally thousands of employees across scores of companies large and small. Most of the programs focus on leadership, management, and other relational skills that enhance a collaborative environment and create an engaged workforce. In addition to training initiatives AMI can offer consulting services that will design systems that can be utilized to manage an organizations human resources. Facilitating strategic thinking and operational planning, installing selection systems, performance appraisal systems, succession planning systems, climate surveys are a few of the initia- tives that are typically led by our professionals. Assisting companies as they navigate the inevitable change that they are faced with is also a focus of AMI. Finally, AMI is a distributor of assessments published by Wiley Publishing (D

FAQs

What staff promotions are announced in this issue?

The newsletter states that Janet S. Hawkins is promoted to Executive Vice President, Norm Nelson becomes Director of Membership, and Kim Mitchell becomes Director of Marketing, with details of their new responsibilities and backgrounds.

Who is elected to the Anderson County Chamber Board of Directors?

Tom Bundy is elected to serve on the board, with the article describing his quality management experience and education, along with community involvement.

What services does Advanced Management, Inc. (AMI) provide?

AMI provides human resource development and organizational development services, including training needs analysis, leadership-focused training programs, consulting for HR systems, and assessments such as DiSC and MBTI.

Sep 17, 2026

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