GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS: 3rd Thursday of each month, at 12 noon, Newberry Municipal Building, 25440 W. Newberry Rd - Newberry unless otherwise noted.

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Our Board of Directors is always hard at work to serve our members the best way we can. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have.

Michelle Pickett
President
Phone: 352.494-4774
Email: michellepickett@remax.net
Welcome to Newberry & Jonesville! We have so much to offer to our business owners and residents. I have truly enjoyed living in Newberry with my husband Jack and our 10 children. I grow up in South Florida, but Newberry is my home. You can find me at the REMAX office selling Real Estate, if you need any information about Newberry or Jonesville I will be glad to assist you.

Jeff Rizzo
Vice-President
Phone: (352)472-9950
Email: rizzo.jeff@ccbg.com
Jeff is originally from southern New Jersey and has been in this area since March 1996. He graduated from Gateway High School (NJ) in 1988 and the University of Florida in 1992. After graduating college, Jeff worked in New Jersey for Newfield National Bank for 3 ½ years before moving back to the Alachua County area. He has 14 years experience in the banking industry and was President of the Chamber from 2004-2006. Go Gators!

Anne Maria Alfano
Director
Email: anne.alfano@gonewberry.com


Bill Brant
Director
Email: grmtrodent@aol.com


Jack Coleman
Director
Phone: (352)472-0046
Email: crescentpropane@bellsouth.net


Joy Glanzer
Director
Phone: (352)665-3534
Email: joyglanzer@remax.net
Joy Glanzer has been a resident and active citizen of Newberry for 30 years. She specializes in commercial and residential real estate, focusing on local developments and housing. She is instrumental in working with developers of subdivisions and is knowledgeable about Newberry’s infrastructure.

Dave Hartwell
Director
Email: davesubway@aol.com


Barbara Hendrix
Director
Email: dabadesignbh@bellsouth.net
Barb was born at McDill Air force base in Tampa Florida. Father was in Air Force and they moved around a lot. She worked her way thru George Wallace Community College and the University of Alabama, then graduated from University of Alabama in Birmingham as a Medical Laboratory Technologist in 1980.

Ann Knapp
Director
Phone: (352)219-7959
Email: ann@jlack.net
Ann and her husband, Joe, moved to Newberry in early 2001 and she opened her massage therapy business in downtown Newberry later that year. She was an active board member of the School Advisory Council at Ridge Technical Center in Winter Haven as well as serving as a class advisor for the massage program there. She is active in the Chamber and has been on the Chamber board since 2002. If you have any changes in your Chamber listing on the web, please e-mail her

Jeff Leivonen
Director
Email: jleivonen@peoplepc.com
Membership Chair

Susan Parker
Director
Email: aaacabinets@bellsouth.net


Kay Q. Ward
Director
Email: kquinnfl@bellsouth.net
A native of northcentral Kansas, Kay grew up on a fourth-generation wheat and cattle farm. She has lived and worked in the Newberry/Gainesville area since the late 1980s. In the community, Kay has served on numerous civic and chamber boards and is a graduate of Leadership Gainesville XXV. She enjoys volunteering at the Watermelon Festival and other Chamber events and in her leisure time, likes to antique, sing in the church choir, and ride her Quarter Horse, Nibs.