Cedar Valley Chamber names Darrah as CEO
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier: Cary Darrah will lead the Greater Cedar Valley Alliance & Chamber as its new CEO following her seven-month tenure as interim CEO, the organization’s board of directors announced last week. Darrah was named interim director in February after the departure of Steve Dust. The board sought proposals from firms to conduct a national executive search for the CEO position, but after seeing research results and reviewing Darrah’s accomplishments as interim CEO, the board unanimously decided it was not necessary to conduct a search. Darrah is the first woman to head the Alliance & Chamber or any of its predecessor organizations since Kristi Ray headed the Cedar Falls Chamber of Commerce from 1997 to 2002.