{"id":21381,"date":"2012-01-11T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T21:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/?p=21381"},"modified":"2012-01-11T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T21:58:10","slug":"jonas-arjes-named-director-of-business-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/2012\/01\/11\/jonas-arjes-named-director-of-business-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonas Arjes Named Director of Business Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas Arjes Named Director of Business Development<\/strong><\/p>\n

BRANSON, Mo. \u2013 Jonas Arjes, a longtime Taney County resident and Branson business leader, has accepted the position of Director of Business Development for the recently organized Taney County Business Development Partnership.<\/p>\n

The Partnership structure has been established, and participants are still being recruited. Financial support of the partnership has been committed by Taney County, Kirbyville, Merriam Woods and the Branson\/Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce and Convention & Visitors Bureau. Verbal support has come from several public and private entities, with presentations being scheduled.<\/p>\n

Arjes\u2019 duties will include new business development and retention, and expansion of existing business within Taney County.
\nArjes has been a Corporate Sales Executive with Akers & Arney insurance since 2007. Arjes received his Bachelor\u2019s Degree from Missouri State University. He is married to Jennifer Arjes. They have three children.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a charter member of the Rotary Club of Hollister where he serves as Sergeant-At-Arms. He also is Chairman-Elect of the Board of Directors of Christian Action Ministries.<\/p>\n

Arjes is a graduate of the 2008 Leadership Academy of the Branson\/Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce. Since 2008, he has served as an ambassador for the Chamber. In 2009, Arjes was presented the Jim Langham Ambassador of the Year Award.
\nArjes had been slated to serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Branson\/Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce and Convention & Visitors Bureau for 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn selecting Jonas for this position, we knew we were losing a great leader, but this is the best decision for our community,\u201d said Ross Summers, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Branson\/Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce and Convention & Visitors Bureau.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis active involvement in many committees and activities over the years throughout the area, and his dedication to many Chamber efforts helped us realize he could be of greater benefit to the entire community in this capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chamber Board Chairman-Elect for 2013 Janet Oller, director of marketing for Silver Dollar City, will now assume the position of chairman for 2012.
\nThe choice of Arjes for this position has the support of Jeff Seifried, manager of regional development for the Springfield Regional Economic Partnership.<\/p>\n

\u201cJonas\u2019 passion for relationship-building and for Taney County will be of benefit to a multi-city-county economic partnership,\u201d Siefried said.
\nDavid Akers of Akers & Arney said Jonas has been a great staff member and will remain a good friend.
\n\u201cWe are extremely excited for the new opportunity Jonas has to help further our community, and everyone here wishes him the best of luck, Akers said.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact Bethany Thomas, Senior Vice President of the Branson\/Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce and Convention & Visitors Bureau. 417-334-4084. BThomas@BransonCVB.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jonas Arjes Named Director of Business Development BRANSON, Mo. \u2013 Jonas Arjes, a longtime Taney County resident and Branson business leader, has accepted the position of Director of Business Development for the recently organized Taney County Business Development Partnership. The Partnership structure has been established, and participants are still being recruited. Financial support of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[12,20,1,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}