Cynthia Oswald
Chamber President

Cynthia Oswald is currently President of the Livingston County Chamber of Commerce. Before stepping in as Chamber president in March 2004 she was the director of the Livingston County Business/Education Alliance. The Chamber and its affiliate, Livingston County Education Alliance, which Cynthia is executive director of, facilitate over thirty programs and initiatives, which include an extensive insurance program for members and the county Tourism Office and Visitor Center.

Cynthia serves on eighteen local boards and committees, including the Livingston Cares Board as an honorary founding member, which provides long-term rebuilding support for Harrison County Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. She is currently serving on the Chamber Alliance of New York State board of directors, and has recently been invited to serve on the New York State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Richard Daines' Prevention Agenda Leadership Group. She was honored by the New York State Department of Labor JSEC Committee in 2003 as Livingston County's Business Person of the Year and was appointed as United Way Chair for Livingston County in 2006. Cynthia has a seat at the national level on US Congressman, Chris Lee's Small Business Committee and the United States Chamber of Commerce, Council on Small Business in Washington D.C.

In November of 2009 she traveled, as a Citizen Diplomat, to the Eastern Region of Ghana (New Juaben Traditional Area) to support the creation their first Chamber of Commerce, Women's Leadership Committee and Young Women's Leadership Club.

She is currently working on an e-commerce agricultural African pilot program and a sustainable housing project with the Daasebre of the New Juaben who is a United Nations Commissioner. This past month Cynthia was recognized as a 2011 Athena Award finalist by the Women's Council of Rochester.

As president, Cynthia oversees all work of the Chamber which serves the Chamber's mission of, "Promoting business development and quality of life in Livingston County".
Cynthia has a BA in Human Services, Certificate in Nonprofit Organizational Management from the United States Chamber of Commerce Northeast Institute at Villanova University and experience in public relations/marketing, leadership development, politics, advocacy and educational experience from preschool teacher to college faculty.

2012 Livingston County Chamber Board of Directors
CHAIRMAN: Bill Bacon, Five Star Bank

• VICE CHAIRPERSON: John Quinlan, Quinlan's Pharmacy & Medical Supply
• TREASURER: Georgia Macauley, Merrimac Farms
• SECRETARY: Mike Schinski, SUNY Geneseo College
• PAST CHAIRMAN: Bonnie Swanson, Key Bank
• AT-LARGE MEMBER: Matt Cole, Commodity Resource Corp. & North Shore Grill

Directors:

• Phil Brooks, Livingston County IDA
• Matt Cole, Commodity Resource Corporation
• Ian Coyle, Livingston County Board of Supervisors' Designee
• Dawn Aprile, Premium Development Corporation
• Art Hatton, SUNY Geneseo Foundation (retired)
• Lisa Bleier, Caledonia Village Inn
• George Kuyon, Deer Run Winery
• Rebecca Lawrence, Gert & Bert Creations
• Robert Deming, Genesee Valley Web Marketing
• Patrick Rountree, Livingston County Economic Development
• Ann Marie Mattice, Bank of Castile
• Craig Nobbs, Steuben Trust Company
• Don Quinn, Walmart
• Gene Tonucci, Allen Bailey Tag & Label, Inc.
• Helen Zamboni, Rochester Law

Thank you to our Gold Leadership Partners!
The Chamber's highest level of membership investment.

• Key Bank
• Kircher Construction
• Livonia Avon Lakeville Railroad
• Nicholas H. Noyes Memorial Hospital
• Merrimac Farms
• Pioneer Credit Recovery, Inc.
• Quinlan's Pharmacy
• Ramsey Constructors, Inc.
• Remedy Intelligent Staffing
• Sams' Club
• State University of New York
  College at Geneseo
• Steuben Trust Company
• The Arc of Livingston-Wyoming
• Underberg & Kessler LLP