Board of Directors

2008-2009 Board of Directors Contact Information

  Jack Wilbur
  2008-2009 GFCC Chairman
  President - Design Alaska
  601 College Road
  Fairbanks, AK 99701
  Phone: (907) 452-1241
  Email: jack@designalaska.com



A Letter from the Chairman

I am honored to have been selected to lead your Chamber of Commerce during the coming year, thank you for the privilege. My congratulations to Rick Solie, Chamber staff, the Board of Directors, and the GFCC committees for their good work in the year past; they have set the stage for the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce to continue as the leading Chamber in our great state.

I come to this position with no agenda other than to lead the Chamber in diligent pursuit of the Chamber’s core purpose, business advocacy. I am huge on Fairbanks; Fairbanks has been my family’s home since 1904 and I am proud of my pioneer heritage. Fairbanks is a wonderful place to live and raise a family, I would not trade it for any place else on earth. Fairbanks is being challenged with difficult obstacles to its continued success and we need to work diligently to overcome those obstacles to assure that Fairbanks continues as a place where our children and our grand-children will also find a home and be successful in their chosen pursuits.

We are fortunate in that the Chamber has many community partners that share our goals and with whom we can work side-by-side to obtain those goals; the City of Fairbanks, the Fairbanks North Star Borough, the City of North Pole, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Ft. Wainwright, Eielson AFB, Fairbanks Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, Downtown Fairbanks, and Fairbanks Economic Development Corporation to name just a few. I plan on working closely with these partners to strengthen our community.

The Chambers most important asset is our membership. Many of you already devote immense amounts of time to Chamber. I encourage others to become likewise involved. Join a committee and help it to develop and achieve its Program of Work; our most important work is done at the committee level. I also encourage each current Member to convince one of your business associates who are not Chamber members to join the rest of us; there is strength in numbers.

I look forward to serving as your Chair in the coming year; it will be exciting, it will be challenging, it will be fun.

Sincerely,

Jack Wilbur