Expect big changes, including strengthening the connection with innovation businesses, once the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce finds a new leader, said the head of the search committee looking for a replacement for retiring President Paul Guzzi.
"We're not going to be able to find another Paul Guzzi," said Chamber Chairman John Fish, the CEO of Suffolk Construction. "What we need is to find someone different from Paul that represents where the puck is going in our community, not where it is today."
Fish said the innovation economy is one of the Chamber's priorities for the years ahead, though he stopped short of promising the organization's next president — who would instantly become a major player among the city's power brokers — will come from that sector.
"I wouldn't specifically say that that's a prerequisite, but what I would say is it's a direction the Chamber's going and needs to go to be responsive to the constituency we represent and probably more importantly want to represent," said Fish.
Fish said he expects the search committee — which he and Hill Holliday CEO Karen Kaplan will co-chair — will pick a replacement by its annual meeting in May.
Guzzi, who is expected to stay on until then, told the Herald that infrastructure, innovation and talent retention are the key items the Chamber should push toward in the years ahead.
"I am optimistic about the future, the future of Greater Boston, the future of the Chamber, playing an even more prominent role going forward," Guzzi said yesterday.
The Chamber will back defeat of Question 1, which would repeal the Legislature-passed indexing of the gas tax to inflation, said Guzzi.
It should also work harder to retain young talent and create more college internships, as well as connect more innovation businesses to the Chamber and to other companies, said Guzzi.
He doesn't have anyone in mind to replace him, but added: "I think having some business experience would be very helpful, having knowledge in and about government I think is helpful and having a sense of this region and the state."
Guzzi, 72, is a former Newton state representative and served a single term as secretary of state in 1974.
He ran for U.S. Senate in 1978, but finished second in the five-way Democratic primary to eventual winner, then-Lowell Congressman Paul Tsongas.
He's been Chamber president since 1996.
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