Brooklyn Chamber Of Commerce Head Andrew Hoan To Step Down

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, NY — Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Andrew Hoan plans to step down from his post later this year because he's moving out of the city, the group announced this week.

Hoan, who worked for the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce for more than five years and took over as head in 2016, will leave the group in May. The chamber already started an immediate search for his replacement.

"Andrew has been an incredible leader for the Chamber — strengthening programs, growing membership, overseeing an amazing Centennial celebration — and most importantly has left the Chamber even stronger," the group said in a statement about his departure.

Hoan first joined theBrooklyn Chamber of Commerce in 2012 as their director of capital and development and later served as executive vice president and chief of staff for the group, according to Kings County Politics and his biography.

He took over as the head of the group in December 2016 after Carlo Scissura left the post to lead the New York Building Congress, Kings County Politics reported.

Before he joined the chamber, Hoan worked as the director of economic development for former Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, according to his biography.

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