By Jennifer Edwards
Enquirer staff writer

ANDERSON TOWNSHIP - The chamber of commerce in this eastern Hamilton County suburb has a new director.

Carolyn Moseley, 53, an Anderson Township resident for 27 years, was selected out of 44 applicants to be executive director of the Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce.

Carolyn Moseley, new Anderson Chamber Executive Director (Photo provided)

She begins Monday. The current executive director, Jerry Grove is retiring after 14 years.

The Anderson chamber, one of the largest in Greater Cincinnati, has about 450 members, ranging from dry cleaners and hair salons to some of the largest employers in the Anderson area, such as Mercy Hospital Anderson and Senco Products Inc.

Moseley's chief task: continuing the chamber's growth, particularly by luring more Clermont County businesses to join.

"Strength in numbers is the key so we can have a very strong voice for anything that happens on the east side of town," she said Monday. "There is a strong chamber in Clermont County, so it's not a matter of us branching into the county and taking those businesses. We want to work together to expand the regional economy."

So far this year, 41 members have joined the Anderson chamber, compared with 13 as of the end of June last year.

The township has 43,857 residents, with an average household income of $82,197. The chamber predicts that income to rise to $94,956 per household by 2008.

Moseley has worked at the Cincinnati Museum Center for the past eight years and is event sales representative, marketing the center for outside events such as weddings and corporate functions.

She also has extensive management and volunteerism experience and earned an MBA in marketing and management from Xavier University.

Moseley's experience impressed the chamber search committee, said Ken Schroeder, the chamber's president.

"She is energetic, she is committed to the township and she brings a lot of event organizing to the table for us," he said. "We want her to take us to the next level."

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