The Greater East Dallas Chamber of Commerce will host the 10th Annual Economic Summit on Tuesday, October 21, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at Lakewood Country Club - 1912 Abrams Road. Keynote speaker is Bob McTeer with the National Center for Policy Analysis. Additional speakers are Steve Brown, Columnist, The Dallas Morning News; Dave Ridley, Senior Vice President Business Development at Southwest Airlines; and Mike Morath, Dallas ISD Trustee - District 2.

A special retail announcement will be made! 

Tickets start at $65 and can be purchased online: www.eastdallaschamber.com. For further information:
president@eastdallaschamber.com or Deborah Brown 214-649-1773.

Steve Brown 10:15 – 10:45Steve Brown is Real Estate Editor of The Dallas Morning News. He has covered the local and national real estate market for the Morning News since 1980. Prior to that he worked in the newspaper's Metropolitan and Tarrant County sections. He writes about commercial and residential real estate, mortgages, finance and design and construction. Brown is a fifth generation Texan and grew up in Dallas. He attended Dallas public schools and graduated with a degree in journalism from Southern Methodist University. He is an officer and director with the National Association of Real Estate Editors.

Dave Ridley 10:45 – 11:15 Senior Vice President Business Development, Southwest AirlinesDave is responsible for Marketing and Revenue Management, which includes activities related to building and maintaining our brand reputation; creating demand for our product through pricing, advertising, and promotion; managing our inventory of seats; and maintaining distribution of our product through various channels, including Southwest.com.

Prior to joining Southwest, Dave worked as a brand manager for Anderson Clayton Foods. He also worked at ENSERCH Corporation and Univest Development Corporation in marketing and business development capacities. Since joining Southwest in 1988, Dave has served as Senior Vice President, People and Leadership Development; Vice President, Ground Operations; and Vice President, Marketing and Sales.

Dave earned an M.B.A from Southern Methodist University in 1981. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of Texas at Austin in 1975.  He started with Southwest in June 1988; retired unsuccessfully from February 2006 to October 2007; returned November 2007.

Mike Morath
DISD Trustee District 2 11:15 – 11-45
Representing Board of Trustees District 2, Mike Morath took office in May 2011. For the past decade, Morath served as President of Minute Menu Systems, a company that assists child care providers in administering a federal food program for low-income children. His company streamlined that federal program, improved the quality of nutrition offered, and helps feed roughly one million children a day throughout the U.S.

He has had a passion for public education for years, is an avid reader of information about school reform, and believes firmly that our school system can be changed so that all of our students succeed, no matter what their backgrounds.

With a belief system that continually calls him to serve others, Morath has participated in numerous volunteer activities, locally and internationally. He has volunteered in our schools and juvenile justice facilities and as a mentor Big Brother. He helped organize a trip to orphanages in southern India to set up clean running water systems, and he volunteered at an eye clinic in rural Mexico, where he was lucky enough to meet another volunteer, Dr. Laura Vondra, who is now his wife.

Bob McTeer – National Center for Policy Analysis 12:20 – 12:50
Robert D. McTeer had a 36 year career with the Federal Reserve System, including almost 14 years (1991-2004) as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). After retiring from the Dallas Fed in November 2004, Bob became chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, where he served for two years. Since 2007, Bob has been affiliated with the National Center for Policy Analysis, a Dallas-based think tank.

Bob has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Georgia, where he was named Distinguished Alumnus in 1991. He joined the Richmond Fed as an economist in 1968 and became head of its Baltimore branch in 1980. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth, and for almost 10 years in the 1980’s at The Johns Hopkins University.