CEO summit on tap for June 22

AeA scholarships assist 14 Oregon students

Corporate tax disclosure measure withdrawn

Use AeA online to promote your company

Thanks to renewing members

 

Events

Oregon Team

AeA regroups in summer months

Our frantic pace of regular networking events slows down between June and September as we focus on a couple of large-scale projects and regroup for the fall. There are no morning breakfast networking events planned during the summer and no CXO networking forums. We sincerely thank all of the volunteer organizers and all of the attendees who helped make this year’s events a huge success.

During the summer we will focus on the annual Party in the Pinot set for Saturday, July 29, at Oswego Hills Winery. Very few tables or individual tickets remain. Call the AeA office right away if you still want to attend at 503-624-6050.

AeA Party in the Pinot details


CEO summit on tap for June 22

Every summer, the AeA Oregon Council holds its CEO Summit, a chance for leaders of our member companies to get together to review progress during the year and set plans for the coming year. This year’s summit will be Thursday, June 22, from 1 to 5:15 p.m. followed by a reception from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. in downtown Portland. CEOs will review the state of the industry, discuss local programs, and set the public policy agenda for next year. If you are the CEO of an AeA Oregon member company and wish to attend, please call the AeA office immediately at 503-624-6050

CEO summit registration


AeA scholarships assist 14 Oregon students

A total of 14 recent Oregon high school graduates from across the state are this year’s recipients of the AeA Technology Scholarship that will enable them to attend Oregon public universities, receive one-on-one mentoring from industry professionals, and compete for the opportunity of a summer internship.

This year’s sponsoring companies include Intel Corp., Clarity Visual Systems, and Timbercon Inc. Scholars are at the top of their graduating classes with an average GPA of 3.94. Six of the 14 scholars are women.

The graduates are from cities across Oregon, including Albany, Beaverton, Corvallis, Grants Pass, Newberg, Newport, Philomath, Salem, Sweet Home, and Veneta. Their intended majors include computer science, physics, chemistry, and chemical, computer, electrical, industrial and mechanical engineering.

Intel launched the program in 1999 and it was adopted as an AeA program the following year. Jennifer Bosze, AeA Oregon Council executive director, said the program “is a great benefit to many talented Oregon students as well as the companies involved.”


Corporate tax disclosure measure withdrawn

A proposed ballot measure that would require many Oregon companies to publicly disclose their state corporate taxes to the public record has been withdrawn by its principal sponsor. The statewide teachers’ union (Oregon Education Association) was collecting signatures on the measure with the stated intent of using corporate disclosure to push for higher business taxes in the future. In their minds, the public and the Legislature would demand higher business taxes once they knew what companies were actually paying.

In early June, however, the teachers’ group decided not to pursue the measure, after having collected more than 80,000 signatures. Stated reason was that the group needed to focus its resources on defeating two potentially damaging measures that would enact a state spending limit and expand taxpayer deductions. The OEA hopes the decision to withdraw the disclosure measure will encourage the business community to join the fight against the measures that would decrease public funds for schools and other state priorities.


Use AeA online to promote your company

Is your company promoted to its best advantage on AeA's Online Member Directory?

AeA members have almost an unlimited amount of space to promote your company’s products and services on the site. And note -- government and commercial buyers have access to our Directory.

There are two ways to update your profile:

Visit the online site.

Or you can contact Julia Ostrowski with AeA's database team at 408-987-4255 and she will be happy to help you.


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