As president and CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, the leading voice for Colorado's business community, J. J. Ament is focused on effectively advocating for small and large businesses in our region. Before being appointed to his current position, he served from 2017 to 2021 as the chief executive officer of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation, a part of the Chamber family of organizations and the largest privately funded and governed economic development organization in Colorado. With experience in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, J. J. brings a unique combination of expertise to the role. An investment banker for most of his career, he participated in more than $15 billion of transactions for governments and public-private partnerships throughout the U.S. before leaving the industry in 2016. J. J. has been a member and chairman of the Colorado Economic Development Commission, where he considered state economic development incentives, grants and tax credits for business and tourism projects statewide.

Brian Tobler has Bachelor of Science degree from Brigham Young University and an MBA from University of Colorado Denver. In his professional career, he has over a decade of banking and commercial real estate experience. In the CRE space, Brian has been involved as an investor, a broker, and a banker. As a broker, Brian currently focuses on investment sales in the private capital space. As a lender, Brian has been instrumental in financing hundreds of deals valuing well over a quarter billion dollars of real estate to include: multifamily, hospitality, retail, industrial, and office. This experience has allowed him to become well versed in underwriting fundamentals of commercial real estate. As an investor, Brian is involved real estate developments, and he is also a member of Raise Masters which is a nationwide mastermind for syndicators and capital raisers. He is passionate about real estate and believes it to be one of the best ways to create and preserve wealth.