Speakers for this event

• Adam Reed

  Adam Reed

  Director Human Resources, Huber Heights City Schools

  Director Human Resources, Huber Heights City Schools

• Al Harmon

  Al Harmon

  Chamber Board President

  Chamber Board President

• Colonel Travis Pond

  Colonel Travis Pond

  Deputy Commander 88th Air Base Wing, WPAFB

  Colonel Travis Pond is the deputy commander of the 88th Air Base Wing
  at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.  The 88th Air Base Wing is
  the largest air base wing in the Air Force with more than 5,000 officers
  and enlisted Airmen, Air Force civilians and contractor employees.  The
  wing provides support and services to the largest, most diverse, and
  most organizationally complex base in the Air Force including a major
  acquisition center, research and development laboratories, a major
  command headquarters, an airlift wing, and the world’s largest military
  air museum.  The base is home to more than 30,000 military, government
  civilian, and contractor employees and associate units. 

  Pond entered the Air Force through the Reserve Officer Training
  Program (ROTC) after graduating from Transylvania University in
  Lexington, Ky. in 1999. He has served as a Contracting Officer at an
  operational squadron, a major weapons center, and at the National
  Reconnaissance Office (NRO).  His command tours include, Contracting
  Squadron Command at Whiteman AFB, Mo., and Contract Management Office
  Commander at Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) Seattle, Wash. He
  has done staff tours at the Pentagon, Air Force Contracting (SAF/AQC),
  as a Program Acquisition Evaluator and senior Contracting representative
  at the DoD Office of Inspector General, and as the Deputy Director of
  Contracting for Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC). He has executed two
  major Source Selections, one for the $525M next generation P5 Combat
  Training System (P5CTS) at Eglin AFB, and a Director of National
  Intelligence #1 priority classified Communications Satellite Project at
  the NRO, valued over $1B.

  Pond has deployed as a Contracting Office Chief, Deputy Chief of
  Contracting, and as an Administrative Contracting Officer for DCMA.  His
  tours include Ali Al Salem, Kuwait, Kandahar, Afghanistan and Baghdad,
  Iraq. Col Pond’s contracting assignments include Scott Air Force Base,
  Ill. where he served as Construction Flight Team Lead, the Air Armament
  Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., where he served as Contracts Flight
  Chief, the National Reconnaissance Office, Va., where he served as the
  Chief of Contracts for the Special Programs Group, the 509th
  Contracting Squadron, Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., where he was the
  Contracting Squadron Commander, DCMA Seattle, his second command tour,
  Air Force Contracting Staff, SAF/AQC, the DoD IG at the Pentagon, the
  Deputy Director of Contracting at AFMC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, and
  as the 88th Air Base Wing Deputy Commander, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.

  Deputy Commander 88th Air Base Wing, WPAFB

• Jeff Gore

  Jeff Gore

  Huber Heights City Mayor

  Huber Heights City Mayor

• John McManus

  John McManus

  Montgomery County Treasurer

  Montgomery County Treasurer

• Mason Hutton

  Mason Hutton

  Executive Director, Huber Heights Chamber

  Huber Heights Chamber of Commerce

  Mason is the current Executive Director for the Huber Heights Chamber of Commerce effective as of January 1, 2024.

  Executive Director, Huber Heights Chamber

• Mike Foley

  Mike Foley

  Montgomery County Clerk of Courts

  Montgomery County Clerk of Courts

• Rodney Creech

  Rodney Creech

  Ohio State House Representative, District 40

  Ohio State House Representative, District 40