Chamber names new CEO

BRADENTON — Jacki Dezelski has been named president and CEO of the Manatee Chamber of Commerce.

Dezelski had been interim CEO since February, when then President and CEO Bob Bartz died.

Dezelski joined the chamber in 1996, when she answered a newspaper help wanted ad for a communications coordinator at the organization. A then recent University of Florida graduate with a bachelor's in graphic design, Dezelski recalls, “I really had no idea what a chamber did,” she said in 2014 Business Observer interview.