Madden named chair of Central R.I. Chamber

People I have met through the Chamber are regularly making a range of important decisions. /
People I have met through the Chamber are regularly making a range of important decisions. /

Thomas M. Madden has been named chairman of the board for the Central Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce. Currently, Madden is a business-law attorney of counsel at Little Medeiros Kinder Bulman & Whitney PC. He has more than 20 years of business legal experience. Madden has a B.A. from Trinity College, an M.A. from New York University and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law.

PBN: What are you looking forward to in your new position?
MADDEN: I am looking forward to working with the board and the members of the Central Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce. … The Chamber is unique in that membership is dominated by people who are the real decision-makers in their organizations. So the people I have met through the Chamber are regularly making a range of important decisions for their businesses and interacting in those decisions has been educational and beneficial to my own professional development.

PBN: As chairman, is one of your goals is to push the theme of “working together”?
MADDEN: The Chamber’s resources are available to a wide variety of people and businesses, including opportunities for members on how to start or grow their businesses, as well as extensive networking events. All this is in an effort to bring people together to benefit from one another’s experience and expertise. An exciting development on the “working together” theme is the “Chamber Power Group.” Chamber members, not limited to Central Chamber, are participating in a discount group electricity-buying program. Through the efforts of Lauren Slocum, president of the Central Rhode Island Chamber, we formally launched the program [Oct. 8]. The benefit to Chamber members comes from the group discount on a cost that is inescapable for any business, at a time when everyone is trying to minimize spending.

PBN: Can you talk about how this experience influences your teaching “the legal environment of business” at Providence College’s School of Business?
MADDEN: [My] experience gives me an understanding of the different contexts in which people work and allows me to give some personal insight on a range of business-law issues. &#8226

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