The Siouxland Chamber of Commerce is hosting their 36th Annual Dinner on Thursday, September 22nd, 2022, at the Sioux City Convention Center featuring keynote speaker, 70th Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Event Information:
5:15 PM – Social
6:00 PM – Color Guard Presentation / National Anthem / Invocation
6:15 PM – Dinner & Chamber Program
8:00 PM – Keynote Address
Chamber Members – $100
Table of Ten (10) Members – $1,000
General Public – $120
Table of Ten (10) General Public – $1,200
More about the speaker:
Michael R. Pompeo is the only person in U.S. history to have led both the State Department as Secretary of State and the Central Intelligence Agency as Director.
Pompeo’s extraordinary legacy of leadership began, when, as a teenager, he reported to the United States Military Academy at West Point to attend college. After graduating first in his class from West Point in 1986, Mr. Pompeo served as a cavalry officer patrolling the Iron Curtain before the fall of the Berlin Wall and with the 2nd Squadron, 7th Cavalry in the U.S. Army’s Fourth Infantry Division.
Upon completing his military service, Pompeo attended law school at Harvard, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, earning his Juris Doctor in 1996. He worked as an attorney immediately following Harvard, and then founded Thayer Aerospace, a global supplier to the world’s leading commercial and military aircraft manufacturers, serving as CEO. He later became president of Sentry International, an oilfield equipment, distribution, and service company.
Mr. Pompeo left the private sector to represent Kansas’ 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Elected four times, he served from 2011-2017 with committee assignments including Intelligence, Energy and Commerce, and the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
Mr. Pompeo left Congress upon his nomination by the President and confirmation by the Senate to serve as the Director of the CIA. He remained at the CIA until he was nominated and confirmed to lead the State Department as the 70th Secretary of State in 2018.