2011 Annual Meeting with Guest Speaker Peter Hutchinson

The Burnsville Chamber of Commerce's Annual Meeting is our chance to honor our "Top Gun", "Volunteer of the Year" and our "Ambassador of the Year"...along with all of you...our members!

Featured Speaker: Peter Hutchinson, President of The Bush Foundation

Peter C. Hutchinson is president of the St. Paul, Minnesota-based Bush Foundation. The Foundation was established in 1953 by 3M executive Archibald Granville Bush and his wife Edyth. The Foundation aims to be a catalyst to shape vibrant communities by investing in courageous and effective leadership that significantly strengthens and improves the well-being of the people of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota and in the 23 sovereign tribal nations that share the same geographic area. In 2009, the Foundation made grants of approximately $35 million.

Prior to coming to the Foundation in December 2007, Hutchinson was co-founder of the Public Strategies Group, a St. Paul company that redesigns and transforms governments throughout the world. Hutchinson has also served as the vice president for external affairs for the Dayton Hudson Corporation (now Target) and chairman of the Dayton Hudson Foundation, commissioner of finance for the State of Minnesota, superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools, and as a deputy mayor in Minneapolis. In 2006, he was the Independence Party candidate for Minnesota governor. Hutchinson is coauthor with David Osborne of The Price of Government:

Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs.