2024 May Member Luncheon Sponsored by EFCU Financial

Join us for our May Member Luncheon presented by EFCU Financial!
Our guest speaker will be Bradley Ives, Executive Director for the Institute for Energy Innovation at Louisiana State University.
 
See below for more information about our guest speaker!



***PLEASE NOTE: Seating capacity will cap at 150 for this luncheon, so register early to secure your seat.***

MEMBER REGISTRATION OVERVIEW
EARLY ONLINE REGISTRATION ($30) WILL CLOSE AT NOON ON MONDAY, MAY 6.
LATE ONLINE REGISTRATION ($35) WILL CLOSE AT NOON ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 8.

WALK-UP REGISTRATION AT THE DOOR ($45) IF SPACE ALLOWS.
After online registration has closed, registration will be at the door only as space allows.
The Chamber staff will be focused on preparing for the luncheon and may not be able to respond to last-minute registration requests the morning of the luncheon.
*Please keep in mind that the only way to guarantee a seat is by registering early.

Cancellations for refund or credit must be made by Monday at noon the week of the event.

Non-members, please call our office(225-647-7487) to register.

Want a little extra exposure at the event? Bring a door prize! All members are welcome to bring a door prize that will be raffled off at the end of the luncheon. Don't forget to attach your business card to your door prize.
 

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Our Guest Speaker: Brad Ives
Brad Ives is the Executive Director of the Institute for Energy Innovation at Louisiana State University.  Prior to joining LSU in October 2023, Mr. Ives led Catawba College to become the first certified carbon-neutral college in the Southeast as Executive Director of its Center for the Environment.  He also served as Chief Sustainability Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and as North Carolina’s Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources where he drove policy resulting in the state’s first wind farm.  
 
Mr. Ives began his career as a structured finance lawyer on Wall Street where he worked on the Sidney A. Murray Hydroelectric Station, which is located near Vidalia, Louisiana, and is still the state’s only hydroelectric power plant. He later moved to institutional money management and led the founding investment in Braemar Energy Ventures, an early clean technology venture capital fund, and spent four years working in finance in London.
 
After returning to the U.S. in 2008, Mr. Ives developed an award-winning landfill gas project to supply renewable energy to ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge Polyolefins Plant.  After the successful sale of that project, Mr. Ives led a biomass energy technology company and worked in energy storage and solar power.
 
Mr. Ives holds the Sustainability and Climate Risk Certificate from the Global Association of Risk Professionals, is a GRI Certified Sustainability Professional and is the recipient of the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association’s Individual Energy Leader Award.  He received his Bachelor of Arts and Law degrees from the University of North Carolina where he was a Morehead-Cain Scholar and is a graduate of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.