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The Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber Staff
President / CEO
Caldie Rogers
Caldie at MarysvilleTulalipChamber.com
Biography
Director of Administration
Kim Hillhouse
Kim at MarysvilleTulalipChamber.com
Biography
Director of Information Services
Bill Wheaton
Bill at MarysvilleTulalipChamber.com
Biography
Business Development Representative
Terry Miranda
Terrym at marysvilletulalipchamber.com
Biography
Biography for Caldie Rogers - President, CEO
Caldie Rogers is President/CEO of The Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce. Under her leadership, The Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce walked away from debt and scandal to become one of the most progressive chambers in the state delivering an unprecedented scope of benefits and services.
Her benchmark is vision and dedication to creating history-making partnerships founded in trust that work on behalf of the communities she represents. The first and only chamber to date in the country to reach out and partner with a sovereign nation, the Chamber now serves as a bridge between Marysville and Tulalip uniting both communities in economic development efforts. This partnership has won state and national attention, promoted as a national role model by the United States Chamber of Commerce and featured at former Governor Lock’s first statewide Economic Development Conference.
Building and expanding upon her faith in partnerships, the Chamber followed its history-making partnership with the Tulalip Tribes with a series of award-winning North County Summits that successfully brought eight warring communities together for the first time in north Snohomish County history to successfully partner on behalf of economic development efforts. Most recently her Chamber has lead a county-wide Military Family-Friendly Employment Initiative that is bringing every government and chamber of commerce from throughout Snohomish County together to work in partnership to ensure that the employment needs of our country’s Armed Forces family members are met here in Snohomish County.
Today, the chamber’s high tech facility pays testimony to the strength in partnerships. Funded in part through state and county grants as well as city and tribal contracts for service the Chamber assists over 43,000 walk-in visitors and responds to over 561,000 inquiries a year while its website receives approximately 33,000 hits a month placing it in the top three to five placements of all world-wide search engines.
The Chamber’s new regional, 2,000 sq. ft. I-5 facility houses a spectrum of offices for the Chamber’s growing staff and features a regional Visitor Information Center – staffed by community volunteers, and an Entrepreneurial Business Development Center – staffed by SBA and NW Women’s Business Center professionals. The Chamber’s Executive Conference Room is used by businesses and community organizations from throughout Snohomish, King and Skagit counties.
She has served in a variety of leadership roles on Boards and Commission throughout Snohomish County and the state of Washington. She currently serves on the Boards of the Association of Washington Business, the Economic Development Council of Snohomish County and Snohomish County Citizens for Improved Transportation (SCCIT). She Co-Chairs Snohomish County’s SnoGold 2010 Tourism Committee, serves on the state’s 2010 Olympics’ Tourism Sub-Committee and Marysville’s Graffiti Task Force Committee. She has served on the Washington Chamber of Commerce Executives (WCCE) Board, Marysville Economic Revitalization Commission, Quil Ceda Village Business Council, Snohomish County’s Citizens’ Commission on Salaries of Elected Officials, Marysville Adult Entertainment Commission and the Marysville School District’s School-to-Work Partnership Team.
On four separate occasions, her Chamber has won first place for “Projects That Mobilize People and Move Communities Forward” from the state’s Association of Washington Business – an unprecedented record for that organization. She has won national awards from the American Chamber of Commerce Communication’s Council for first place in graphic design and writing; from the United States Chamber of Commerce for top in the nation for Membership Retention. She was named Outstanding First-Year Chamber Executive from the Washington State Chamber of Commerce Executives in 1993, and received honors from former President George Bush, as Chairman of Snohomish County’s Human Services Commission for Project Self-Sufficiency, a program that became a national role model for breaking the cycle of poverty for welfare mothers.
A graduate of the University of Washington, she served as a Russian Linguist for the United States Army Security Agency at the end of the Viet Nam era. She began her chamber career in 1986 and went on to earn her Masters degree from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute of Organizational Management out of the University of Delaware in 1993.
Biography for Kim Hillhouse-Director of Administration
Kim Hillhouse has over 25 years experience working as a highly productive Administrator with extensive experience providing organized, prompt and accurate support to decision-makers across departments and industries. Her background includes serving as Office Manager for a financial group, where she oversaw startup office operations and built a strong sustainable administrative team. She oversaw asset management, data management, and office design for several startup companies. She also served as primary liaison between two major facilities at Boeing where she provided meticulous technical support for the launch of companywide computer and database implementations. She has been a credit manager for a land and sea communications manufacturer where she developed and implemented credit and collection policies/procedures.
Kim was born and raised in Marysville as well as raising her children here. Kim recently sold her highly successful business, The Sun Factory, which she opened and operated in Marysville. During her five plus years of business, she was an Emissary for Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce, she helped sponsor many local events such as The Strawberry Festival and Concerts in the Park. She also donated to many local fundraisers, little leagues, dance competitions and promoted and collected food for the Marysville Food Bank. Kim has very strong ties to Marysville and is committed to the betterment of the community.
Biography for Bill Wheaton - Director of Information Services
A Boston-area native who has been a resident of Snohomish County for going on twenty years, Bill brings an array of customer service, management, and administrative experience that the Chamber believes will be well utilized. As Director of Information Services, he oversees and works with our many volunteers, assists with travelers, helps keep the office running smoothly, and assists in meetings and projects with which the Chamber involves itself.
Previous to coming to the Chamber, Bill spent several years in analyst positions with the A.C. Nielsen Company and Verizon. While at Verizon, he also spent years as an officer of their national charitable arm, Employee Service Management. He also was a successful retail manager for organizations on both coasts, and a Business Specialist for Washington Mutual. Bill holds a B.A. from Bridgewater State College, and has taken a number of night and weekend courses for personal improvement purposes.
Bill is a reading enthusiast and avid sports fan (with a growing appreciation for landscaping as of late). Initially, one of his favorite things about the position is that “the little bits of trivia and the like that I picked up over the years and thought were useless bits of information actually come in handy now”. He, his wife Mary Ann, and Kila the Wonder Cat reside in nearby Arlington.
Biography for Terry Miranda - Business Development Representative 
Terry was born and raised in Western Washington. After graduating from the UW, Terry went to work for Sears as Advertising Coordinator for the Seattle Region. He was later promoted to Advertising Manager for the Seattle Region and then promoted to the Seattle/Pacific NW Group and lastly was the Advertising / Sales Promotion Manager for Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Northern California and Alaska Region.
Terry served on the Seattle Advertising Review Board and was Co-Chairman of the Retail Division of the Puget Sound Advertising Federation and was on the American Heart Association of Washington Board. He also served on the National Newspaper Publishers Association Convention (The Black Press) in New Orleans and as a result Sears received the National Advertiser of the Year award.
In 1990 Sears consolidated all their offices to the Sears Tower in Chicago. Terry took their buyout offer rather than relocate and was offered Advertising Manager position with the Bon Marche and Eddie Bauer but decided not to stay in the corporate world. Instead he started his own Marketing & Advertising business and did work for Fishing & Hunting News, Graphic Seattle, The Seattle/Portland Medium newspaper and a number of small companies.
Terry and his wife Patti, a registered nurse, lived in Richmond Beach area of north Seattle but moved to Marysville to be closer to their grandchildren and semi-retire. This semi retirement lasted about 2 months and then Terry took up his current position with the Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce.
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