Kami Welch, Senior Counsel
Kami Welch

Senior Counsel

High-motor 15-year Chamber Pro / CEO with a talent for Talent (U.S. Chamber Talent Pipeline Fellow, started Denver region talent initiative, and named 2023 Outstanding Woman in Business by the Denver Business Journal); tackles critical community challenges with just the right “velvet hammer” style and just says “no” to chamber 3P (parties, pageants and parades); University of…

Highly accomplished, Kim Scheeler
Kim Scheeler

Senior Counsel

Highly accomplished, 25-year nonprofit pro and thrice CEO (United Way Suncoast, Tampa Bay Chamber and ChamberRVA); change-agent who turned around program, impact and the bottom line at every stop; USF MBA (Go Bulls!) and Hoosier undergrad where he learned to throw chairs with loft and distance; when not moonlighting with POWER 10, you can find…

DIRECTOR OF CAMPAIGN OPERATIONS

Gregarious gold medalist in cookie-on-pillow placement (30+ years as a hospitality industry biz dev pro – from on-property operations through global accounts); Michigan State grad (GO GREEN! GO WHITE!); ice hockey player (still!); enjoys long walks down green fairways and rugged hikes up mountain trails.

Brian Desarro

DIRECTOR OF CAMPAIGN OPERATIONS

Broadly successful communications pro – from the digital (Emmy award winner – Game of Thrones website (yup – that Emmy!)) to the interpersonal (lead negotiator for ATL Federation of Musicians) – all of which started with Journalism and English degrees from War Eagle-land; highly engaged on high impact boards – such as the Atlanta Pride…

Director of Campaign Operations

 Auburn U. grad (War Eagle!) and Family Law Attorney (SMU JD) turned Capital Campaign Director; Alabama born and raised but felt a calling to the West – like many before her – and is now Rocky Mountain high; frequently nourished by nature (hiking, biking, skiing); pursues campaign goals like she pursues mountain crests – one…

Demming Bass, POWER 10 Capital Campaigns
Demming Bass, IOM

SENIOR COUNSEL

Communications pro and former senior executive at 4 (!) top southeast chambers; has creatively generated new high-impact economic development initiatives — as well as songs for the Nashville crowd; hobbies include being named to Top 40 lists (not yet Casey Kasem’s) and building shelves to hold his many awards; accomplished guitar player and artist, and proud papa…

Amity Farrar

Executive Vice President

Labor / Employment Law Attorney (UGA) and University of Michigan graduate with 14 years in the practice of law, and a decade in fundraising and capital campaign management; multi-campaign winner and emerging industry leader; twin citizenship (U.S. and U.K.), twin kids, two pups, one husband, and a whole lotta iron fist in a velvet glove!

Sean Mikula

Chief Executive Officer

Attorney (UGA), West Point grad, U.S. Army Military Intelligence Officer with 20 years of coast-to-coast capital campaign experience; believes nonprofit campaigns should be run like a military operation complete with occasional use of camouflage face paint and frequent use of “Hooah!” (Per Wikipedia, “hooah” means “anything and everything EXCEPT ‘no’”).