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Shaun Lumachi

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As President of Chamber Advocacy, Shaun Lumachi maintains results-driven government affairs efforts for organizations throughout California. Shaun secures community involvement to develop and advocate legislative priorities, serves as a resource on issues impacting the client's communities, and implements effective communication strategies.

Since founding Chamber Advocacy, Shaun has worked to sponsor legislation at all levels of government, activate local communities on over 1,200 issues, and builds and maintains a grassroots advocacy Web site portal for each client.

In 2004, Shaun was honored by the Western Association of Chamber Executives (W.A.C.E) as the recipient of the association's prestigious Gerald Hathaway Staff Member of the Year Award.

Beginning in 2003, the California Chamber of Commerce has recognized the most effective chamber of commerce government affairs program in California and, since 2009, the California Chamber has recognized the best chamber of commerce political program in the state. These honors have been awarded to a Chamber Advocacy client every year since their inception.

Prior to founding Chamber Advocacy, Shaun served as Vice President for Government Affairs for the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce where he helped build their award-winning and nationally-acclaimed government affairs program.

Shaun's purpose is to be a dedicated leader who serves his community through advocacy and the development of relationships. His philosophy is simple: to know his purpose, build and maintain relationships, be authentic, set goals, have clear visions, be result-driven, and be disciplined. In 2007, Long Beach Magazine honored Shaun as one of the Most Innovative Minds In Long Beach, California.

Shaun is an active member of the Long Beach community serving as a member of nine non-profit boards of directors. He is also the co-founder and publisher of the Long Beach Post, Inc. The company comprises the LBPOST.com and LBPOSTsports.com reaching 100,000 people a month as of May 2010. Shaun and long-time friend, Long Beach City Councilmember Robert Garcia, founded the company in 2007 as an independent media organization providing daily news, commentary and sports coverage on local, statewide, national and international issues impacting Long Beach, California. Councilmember Garcia left the day-to-day operations of the company in December 2008. Since then, Shaun leads a team of local community writers, professional journalists and a sponsorship director.

Shaun earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from California State University, Sacramento. While at California State University, Sacramento, Shaun was elected Chairman of the California State Student Association (CSSA) which serves as the statewide student body government for all of the 23 campuses of the California State University system. In 1999, Shaun received the CSSA Chair's Award for Excellence in Student Advocacy. Nearly ten years later, CSSA honored Shaun as CSSA's 2008 Alumnus of the Year.

Shaun is also an active and proud alumnus of the Theta Xi Chapter of the Sigma Chi International Fraternity. He is also a baseball umpire and has worked at all levels of baseball up to the NCAA PAC-10 and all levels of softball up to the Western Regional Little League World Series.

Shaun, and his wife Deziré, are proud residents of the Belmont Shore community in Long Beach, California.

Professional Involvement

Faculty Member, Representing Business with Government, W.A.C.E. Academy, 2005 - Present
Speaker, Mobilizing the Masses, American Chamber of Commerce Executives Convention, 2008

Keynote Speaker, CSSA California Higher Education Student Summit, 2006, 2008

Speaker, Oregon State Chamber Conference, 2007

Panelist, W.A.C.E. Webinar Series, Using Your Web Site and E-Communications for Fun & Profit, 2005
Panelist, Building Strong Grassroots Political Action, Cal Chamber Legislative Summit, 2003 - 2005
Panelist, Political Action, W.A.C.E. Annual Conference, 2003 - 2006
Panelist, Political Action, Southern California Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives, 2003
Panelist, Political Action, United States Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Conference, 2002, 2009