with that, it's my great pleasure to bring on stage the outgoing chair, catherine cahill. thompson catherine took over as the board chair in the beginning of 2023 and has been a strong advocate and leader for the business community. she has led the chamber of commerce in stride through new challenges and new opportunities, and thank you, catherine, for your dedication, time and thoughtfulness. if you could join me on stage, that'd be great. we have a little something for you. catherine, as a token of our gratitude, you have something you probably always wanted. your own very own cable car bell. it's quite heavy , and it sounds great. if you'd like to give it a ring, please do so. okay thank you, thank you . all right. i'll try to talk fast so rodney doesn't have to hold that too long. it's been my honor to serve as board chair of the chamber this past year. um, as you all know, it continues to be a challenging time for san francisco, but i'm extremely proud of the work that the chamber has done to double down on the city, to push for the changes the city needs to make, to think out

to your chamber of commerce leadership, rodney fong, catherine cahill thompson and alfredo pedroza. such inspiring words from all of them. so before i let you go, let's go ahead and keep an eye out for upcoming chamber events. get involved in the san francisco business community if you are interested in learning more about the san francisco chamber of commerce, i encourage you to visit their website, sf chamber comm. follow them on social media and thank you to everyone here today for helping us make this event possible. all our sponsors, speakers, guests, and thanks to the san francisco chamber of commerce staff for their out standing work and happy valentine's day everyone! happy wednesday. we hope to see you all again next year. you all take care. >> (music). >> hi, i'm emmy the owner of emmy's spaghetti i offers working that with some kind of fine dining and apron and feeling stuffy and in the 90s in san francisco it was pretty pretense in a restaurant in the restaurant scene i want to it have a place to have a place for my friends to guess i started the restaurant a no better p

with that, it's my great pleasure to bring on stage the outgoing chair, catherine cahill. thompsonne took over as the board chair in the beginning of 2023 and has been a strong advocate and leader for the business community. she has led the chamber of commerce in stride through new challenges and new opportunities, and thank you, catherine, for your dedication, time and thoughtfulness. if you could join me on stage, that'd be great. we have a little something for you. catherine, as a token of our gratitude, you have something you probably always wanted. your own very own cable car bell. it's quite heavy , and it sounds great. if you'd like to give it a ring, please do so. okay thank you, thank you . all right. i'll try to talk fast so rodney doesn't have to hold that too long. it's been my honor to serve as board chair of the chamber this past year. um, as you all know, it continues to be a challenging time for san francisco, but i'm extremely proud of the work that the chamber has done to double down on the city, to push for the changes the city needs to make, to think outside the