The new Executive Director of the Brownwood Area Chamber of Commerce, Nathan Smith, was introduced Thursday night during the annual Chamber of Commerce Banquet in the Brownwood Coliseum.

“I’m very excited about this opportunity to be the next Executive Director of the Brownwood Area Chamber of Commerce for a lot of reasons, one of which is that the Brownwood Chamber is doing so many great things and has done so many great things, especially through this COVID season that we’ve had,” Smith said.

Smith told KOXE News he grew up in Colorado City in Mitchell County.

“Agriculture has been my background. I recently came from Texas Farm Bureau where I worked in the organization division, did some lobbying, agriculture promotion and a lot of work with our non-profit county farm bureau boards,” Smith said.

Nathan is married to a local Brown County woman (Kara Kelton) of May, Texas.

“Brown County is where we want to call home, it’s where we want to raise our kids. We’ve got four young kids and this is where we want to be and that’s the reason why I was looking for an opportunity in this area,” Smith said.

Smith will begin his work at the Brownwood Area Chamber of Commerce on July 14.