DENVER HOST COMMITTEE ANNOUNCES FOUNDING MEMBERS
OF SUMMIT CLUB Membership drive features businessses that define Denver Denver, CO - Feb. 13, 2008 - The Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee today announced the founding members of its Summit Club. The Summit Club is for sponsors who have contributed $5,280; businesses such as law firms, restaurants, hotels, labor groups and public relations firms are all included in the founding membership list.
"We couldn't be more thrilled by the participation we're seeing from local businesses across the Denver area who are joining the Summit Club," said Elbra Wedgeworth, President/Chair of the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee. "The fact that local businesses are helping support the convention by joining the Summit Club speaks to the excitement we're seeing about Denver hosting this historic event."
The Host Committee has a goal to add a total of 100 members to the Summit Club. Currently there are 30 members, including 29 founding members who joined by the end-of-January deadline in to be considered a founding member.
The founding members include the Denver Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Colorado Convention Center and businesses across the area who have a goal of helping Denver shine as the host city for the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
"This is a great opportunity for Denver to showcase itself to the country and to the world, and we see the Summit Club as a way to support Denver's efforts in making that presentation," said Denver attorney Howard Gelt of the law firm Shughart Thomson & Kilroy PC.
The Host Committee has organized a variety of breakfast meetings across the Denver area, where Wedgeworth, Host Committee CEO Mike Dino and Host Committee Executive Committee co-chair Steve Farber have pitched the Summit Club and its many benefits.
Among the benefits to joining, Summit Club members receive recognition on all Host Committee printed material as well as tickets to Host Committee events during the Democratic National Convention. They also are listed on the Host Committee web site at
www.DenverConvention2008.com.
The Host Committee will raise a total of $45 million to $50 million in cash from sponsors as part of its contractual obligation in planning and organizing Denver's efforts around hosting the Democratic National Convention Aug. 25-28.
FOUNDING MEMBERS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:
Alem International Management, Inc.
All Business Sedan
Arcadis
Argonaut Wine & Liquor Store
Arnold & Porter LLP
Baker Hostetler
Black Hawk/Central City VCB
Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine PC
Colorado Convention Center
Colorado State Conference of Electrical Workers
Denver Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Dufford & Brown, P.C.
Duncan Solutions
Fast Enterprises, LLC
Fort Restaurant
Foster, Graham, Milstein, Miller & Calisher, LLP
Haddon Morgan Mueller Jordan Mackey & Foreman
Highland's Garden Cafe
Hyatt Regency Denver
Isaacson Rosenbaum P.C.
Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell LLP
Kutak Rock LLP
Mills & Weitzenkorn, P.C.
Richter Scale Productions
Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons, LLP
Schenkein Inc.
Shughart Thomson & Kilroy PC
Snell & Wilmer LLP
Wedgle & Kukreja, P.C. |