Becky_Thatcher_KellerJamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce has its new Executive Director on board.

On Friday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 Becky Thatcher-Keller said she started her position with the Chamber on September 16, 2014.

Becky said her previous professional experience before coming to the Chamber has been in community economic development as an economic developer, in the region, for over 20 years.

Prior to joining the Chamber, she was with the South Central Dakota Regional Council office in Jamestown, with the Small Business Development Center Office for the past two and a half years.

She was also a SCDRC board member for several years.

She was also the economic developer for Cooperstown, and the economic developer for McIntosh County.

Becky has also done consulting work with the Heartland Rural Assistance Program and as executive director of Dakota Heartland Champion Community.

She is a board member of the ND Community Foundation, a member of the ND Economic Development Association and the ND Rural Leadership Association.

In 2007 Becky was awarded with the ND Governor’s Professional Developer of the Year for Economic Development honor and in 2012 she was the ND SBA Woman of the Year.

Ms. Thatcher-Keller succeeds Lisa Hicks, who has taken a medical leave of absence.