Huntington Beach has 10,000+ businesses, and most of them aren't on Main Street. Max Daffron, the HB Chamber's first CEO in eight years, is building five industry coalitions to fix that — and you don't need a membership to join.

Max grew up here, worked in the City's Economic Development Office, then spent years in Colorado watching recruiters build trips around pulling Surf City businesses out of California. He came home to do something about it.

What you'll learn:
- Why an out-of-state recruitment trip to "Los Angeles aerospace" turned out to be entirely Huntington Beach companies
- The five Sector Partnerships — Health & Wellness, Professional Services, METAL, RED, and Restaurants/Retail/Hospitality — and why none of them require Chamber dues
- How Orlando Precision navigated parking and planning red tape into an 80,000 sq ft second facility near Boeing
- The reason HB's industrial employers are what keep downtown restaurants open in January
- What a longtime member said out loud at the Professional Services meeting that changed his mind about renewing
- Max's five-year goal for where the Chamber sits in Orange County (Irvine gets a nod)

🏪 Huntington Beach Chamber of Commerce | Currently officed at Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA | 714-536-8888 | https://hbchamber.com/
📧 Max Daffron: mdaffron@hbcoc.com
📱 Instagram: @hbchamber

Upcoming Chamber events:
- Annual Golf Tournament & Sunset Mixer, Huntington Club — July 27, 2026
- State of Orange County (with Newport Beach Chamber) — August 7, 2026
- State of the City — tentatively September 10, 2026
- State of Public Safety — late 2026
- SBDC Business Conference — January 2027

Robert Mayer Leadership Academy: https://hbchamber.com/events/rmla

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