Club Meeting: Teaming Up: The City and the Chamber Help Small Businesses

Kevin O’Malley and Dr. Joann Linville will be our guest speakers at the April 22 meeting of the Rotary Club of Wilsonville. They will speak on the topic, “Teaming Up: The City and the Chamber Help Small Businesses.”

Kevin O’Malley was hired as CEO of the Wilsonville Chamber of Commerce on September 21, 2015.  He has been an active participant in the South-Metro business community for years, having founded an electronic security alarm business, which he sold to a local Oregon Fortune 500 company 15 years later.  He has also built a successful marketing consulting firm working with small and medium-sized businesses in the South-Metro and national markets.  He served on the Tualatin Chamber Board for 6 years, including 2 terms as Board Chair.  Kevin also acted as the Interim-CEO for the Brookings-Harbor Chamber of Commerce; Executive Director of the OBFAA, a state-wide trade membership organization; and Chairman of AIREF, a foundation which facilitated collaboration and partnerships between business and government to find solutions for Community problems.

Dr. Joann E. Linville was appointed to the Wilsonville City Council on Sept. 5, 2019, and re-elected in Nov. 2020 to a term that continues through Dec. 31, 2024.  Prior to her appointment, she served as chair of the City’s Development Review Board (Panel A). Linville began her career as a nurse before transitioning into higher education, where she spent more than 30 years in faculty and administrative leadership capacities at several community colleges. Before retiring and moving to Wilsonville in 2011, Linville served as the vice president of learning services at Arizona Western College (Yuma, Arizona).  Since retirement, she has consulted at several colleges, including a stint as the Interim Vice President of Instruction at Rogue Community College (Grants Pass, Oregon). Linville has earned two post-graduate degrees in education, a master’s degree from Western Washington (1994), and a doctorate from the University of Washington (2003).  She also served on the board of directors for the Yuma Regional Medical Center. A resident of Charbonneau, Linville is immediate past president of the Charbonneau Women’s Golf Association and a volunteer rules official for Oregon Golf Association events. 

The Rotary Club of Wilsonville meets every Thursday at noon, living out the club’s main objectives of service and fellowship. Guests are always welcome. Meetings take place on Zoom. Contact President Joe Schwab at president@wilsonvillerotary.com, or any member of the club for details.