EACC Texas Press Release

thAnnouncing European American Chamber of Commerce Texas

 Previously French-American Chamber of Commerce DFW

 FACC broadens its platform to reflect a growing European business culture in Texas

Contact: Erin McKelvey / EACC Texas

Phone: 972-241-0111

Mobile: 972-978-6292
emckelvey@eacctx.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 22, 2021

DALLAS – April 15, 2021 – After 41 years of thriving as the French-American Chamber of Commerce DFW, the organization announces its migration to the European American Chamber of Commerce and its expansion to all of Texas.

“2020 gave us time to rethink how we would emerge after the pandemic. With so many European companies in Texas and Texas corporations doing business across Europe, we felt the need to elevate our mission and serve a broader multi-national base that would still be compliant with the current FACC DFW members,” said Ruth Baron, President of the European American Chamber of Commerce Texas and Senior Vice President of The Point Group.

“Shifting our focus was a strategic move that our board of directors and members supported unanimously as, in the end, it is all about enhancing the benefits we provide to our current and future members,” said Romain Trapp, Executive Vice President of the European American Chamber of Commerce Texas and President & Head of North America for Airbus Helicopters.

“The EACC gave us a clear path to follow through a history of chambers successfully transitioning to this broader model,” said Erin McKelvey, Executive Director of the European American Chamber of Commerce Texas. “We have been testing the waters of becoming more European American since 2019 when we created the EuroTech Talks featuring technology speakers from Erickson, Nokia, Bell Flight and other European thought leaders in innovation. We then followed that series with the planning of the European American Flight Forum.”

The newly formed EACC Texas and its mission to stimulate business and networking relations between Europe and the United States plans to inaugurate the chapter through a virtual event. This event will be on Monday, May 12, 11:30 CST, with its first high-profile speaker, Erik Brattberg, director of the Europe Program and a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. Brattberg is an expert on European politics, security and transatlantic relations. His current research at Carnegie focuses on U.S. foreign policy toward the EU and NATO and transatlantic cooperation in an age of great power competition. He also focuses on European approaches toward AI and disinformation and Europe’s relations with China and Asia.

Also being scheduled are the European American Economic Conference. This will then be followed by an inaugural gala in September and the European American Flight Forum in March 2022.

For more information, please go to www.eacctx.com.

For members of the media who are interested in covering this story or arranging an interview, email Erin McKelvey at emckelvey@eacctx.com or call 972-241-0111.

About the European American Chamber of Commerce

The EACC Texas is a private and independent 501(c)6 Non-Profit organization with affiliates in Paris, Lyon and Toulouse France, and the Netherlands. US Chapters include New York; Cincinnati; the Carolinas; Florida; Princeton, NJ; and Texas; with expansion plans for other US and EU cities.

The European American Chamber of Commerce opens up business opportunities across all of Europe for US companies. Furthermore, it provides access to the US market for European companies.

A message from Founder Maurice Marchand-Tonel: “Key decisions today, corporate and government, can only be based on educated judgment. Judgment must be based on good information and sentiment derived from dialogue with other respected decision-makers. This is precisely what the EACC is all about. Based on a common history, the same values and the same challenges, Europe and the US are in this together.”

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