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The Chamber's Business Retention and Expansion Program—Portfolio Austin
Initiative Participants
The Chamber's Small Business Programs & Resources

The Chamber's Business Retention and Expansion Program—Portfolio Austin Austin's existing businesses fuel our economy, provide meaningful, well compensated employment with excellent benefits to many residents, contribute to our community through many service projects and charitable activities, build the reputation of our region for innovation, and attract workers and customers to our area. We recognize the enormous value your investment brings to this area as well as the economic and social benefit of the jobs Austin businesses have created. The Chamber's new effort—Portfolio Austin—A Strategy for Growth—headed by Pete Winstead of Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C., is a recognition of the fact that almost 80 percent of new jobs in this region will be created by employers already located here. The Chamber and our regional partners in economic development are committed to assisting existing businesses in every possible way. This initiative identifies regional business retention problems and barriers to your growth and profitability. Our efforts are focused in the following areas: Legislation-Local, State and Federal Workforce Local Government Services Business Attraction Business Leadership Involvement A regional SWAT team is composed of representatives from each of these areas and meets periodically to discuss input from the business community. We pledge to facilitate solutions and to focus our resources on removing these barriers. We know you have a choice. We are proud your choice is Austin. For copies of 2007 Portfolio Austin reports, please contact Susan Davenport, Vice President, Business Retention & Expansion, Greater Austin Chamber, 512.322.5657 or sdavenport@austinchamber.com.
Annual Report	Biosciences	Clean Energy	Digital Media
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The Chamber's Business Retention and Expansion Program—Portfolio Austin

Austin's existing businesses fuel our economy, provide meaningful, well compensated employment with excellent benefits to many residents, contribute to our community through many service projects and charitable activities, build the reputation of our region for innovation, and attract workers and customers to our area.

We recognize the enormous value your investment brings to this area as well as the economic and social benefit of the jobs Austin businesses have created. The Chamber's new effort—Portfolio Austin—A Strategy for Growth—headed by Pete Winstead of Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C., is a recognition of the fact that almost 80 percent of new jobs in this region will be created by employers already located here. The Chamber and our regional partners in economic development are committed to assisting existing businesses in every possible way.

This initiative identifies regional business retention problems and barriers to your growth and profitability. Our efforts are focused in the following areas:

Legislation-Local, State and Federal
Workforce
Local Government Services
Business Attraction
Business Leadership Involvement

A regional SWAT team is composed of representatives from each of these areas and meets periodically to discuss input from the business community. We pledge to facilitate solutions and to focus our resources on removing these barriers. We know you have a choice. We are proud your choice is Austin.

For copies of 2007 Portfolio Austin reports, please contact Susan Davenport, Vice President, Business Retention & Expansion, Greater Austin Chamber, 512.322.5657 or sdavenport@austinchamber.com.

Annual Report

Biosciences

Clean Energy

Digital Media

Initiative Participants
2005 Volunteer Business Leader Committee:	2005 Regional SWAT Team:
Pete Winstead, 2004 BR&E Committee Chair Shareholder Winstead, Sechrest & Minick, P.C.	Shirley Clowers-Knox Executive Director WorkSource
Bruce Burdett Managing Director, Central Texas Marsh USA Inc.	Susan Davenport Vice President, Business Retention & Expansion Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce
Volney Campbell Professional Sales, First VP CB Richard Ellis	Hannah Gourgey Interim Director Capital Area Training Foundation
Jerry Converse Partner Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P.	Sandy Hentges Vice President, Public Policy Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce
Frank Hanzlik Managing Director Wi-Fi Alliance	Laura Huffman Asst. City Manager City of Austin
Tim Hendricks Senior Vice President Cousins Properties, Inc.	Jubal Smith Department of Economic Development City of Austin
Gail O'Connor Principal CRESA Partners
Al Simmons CEO Graeber, Simmons & Cowan, Inc.
Gary Valdez President Focus Strategies
William Wilson President, Central Texas Region Wachovia Bank, N.A.
Business in the Human Capital is a quarterly newsletter designed to keep you informed about Portfolio Austin, the business retention and expansion program well underway. If you have not yet had a visit from the BR&E team, you soon will. For more information, please contact Susan Davenport, Vice President, Business Retention & Expansion, Greater Austin Chamber, 512.322.5657 or sdavenport@austinchamber.com.
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The Chamber's Small Business Programs & Resources The Chamber's Small Business program champions entrepreneurial and small business development and successful growth in the Austin area through a range of initiatives and activities. The Chamber's Small Business Guide is a comprehensive guide to starting your own business in the Greater Austin area. Supplemental information to the Small Business Guide is collected in the Chamber's Small Business Resources section. These collected resources serve as a quick reference guide to augment to your knowledge, research, and planning for small business issues ranging from management assistance, funding sources, specialized services, trade associations, etc. The Central Texas Angel Network is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing quality early-stage investment opportunities for accredited Central Texas angel investors, and to assisting, educating and connecting early stage growth companies in Central Texas with information and advisors for the purpose of raising money and assisting in their growth. The organization works with the Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization, the Texas Technology Fund, and universities to identify opportunities in early stages of development and thus help emerging companies grow to profitability and/or grow to venture capital scale investments.
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The Chamber's Small Business Programs & Resources

The Chamber's Small Business program champions entrepreneurial and small business development and successful growth in the Austin area through a range of initiatives and activities.

The Chamber's Small Business Guide is a comprehensive guide to starting your own business in the Greater Austin area.

Supplemental information to the Small Business Guide is collected in the Chamber's Small Business Resources section. These collected resources serve as a quick reference guide to augment to your knowledge, research, and planning for small business issues ranging from management assistance, funding sources, specialized services, trade associations, etc.

The Central Texas Angel Network is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing quality early-stage investment opportunities for accredited Central Texas angel investors, and to assisting, educating and connecting early stage growth companies in Central Texas with information and advisors for the purpose of raising money and assisting in their growth. The organization works with the Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization, the Texas Technology Fund, and universities to identify opportunities in early stages of development and thus help emerging companies grow to profitability and/or grow to venture capital scale investments.