Council Bluffs Area Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Dan Koenig submitted his resignation Friday effective July 5.

The chamber board will begin to discuss Koenig’s replacement im­mediately, according to a news re­lease. The chamber has more than 800 dues-paying members. 

“I’ve been eyeing a new op­portunity and the timing is right,” Koenig said in a release. “There are a lot of good things happening in Council Bluffs, and I tried my best to build upon those successes.”

Don Kohler, the chamber board chairman and vice presi­dent of marketing and public relations at Iowa Western Community College, said Koenig played a key leadership role in key initiatives.

Kohler said he cred­ited Koenig for stream­lining and automating office functions, increas­ing member communi­cations, establishing a new cham­ber website, database, membership software and member offerings.

Koenig was hired in September 2017 to replace for­mer chamber president and CEO Bob Mundt, Koenig had served as ex­ecutive vice president of the chamber from 1989 to 1993 and worked for the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil from 1983 to 1989. Koenig has also served as a chamber president in Overland Park, Kansas; Bellevue, Nebraska, and San Angelo, Texas, Chamber.

– Council Bluffs Area Chamber of Commerce