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The Beaumont Chamber Foundation’s Leadership Beaumont Alumni Committee is hosting a professional development luncheon entitled “Leading Through Change”. Leading change and transformation is crucial to successfully navigating challenges and inspiring others with courage and conviction. Come learn from experts what essential skills and tools they use to proactively lead change and transformation in themselves, their leadership teams, and the people they lead so that new levels of high performance are attainable.

Keynote Speaker: Roxanne Acosta-Hellberg, County Clerk, Jefferson County, TX
Born of immigrant parents in Raymondville, TX, Roxanne Acosta-Hellberg began her life as a migrant worker. After graduating high school, she attended Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos and earned a Bachelors Degree in Healthcare Administration. She completed internships while completing her higher education, moving through different programs as a result of promotions and work opportunities. She attended the University of Texas Pan American and later earned her MBA from Our Lady of the Lake University in 2002.
 
Roxanne currently serves as the County Clerk for Jefferson County. When she moved to Southeast Texas, she held the position of the Director of Materials Management at Baptist Memorial Hermann in Beaumont from 2000-2002. She later served as the Hospital Administrator in Pasadena. She soon joined her husband, Eric Hellberg, in the successful asset recovery business Get Recovery, which he began in 2001 in four states. Roxanne’s addition to the company brought about expansion nationwide! The two also invest in Real Estate both locally and throughout the country. They have two children and have been married for 24 years. The Hellbergs attend Wesley Methodist Church in Beaumont. Roxanne is also a member of Spindletop Rotary Club and is active in the community having served on various board such as the Red Cross, Chair of the Texas Workforce Commission, and on the board of the Hope Women’s Resource Clinic and Greater Beaumont Chamber of Commerce. 

Michelle Armstrong is a business development and marketing professional with over 32 years of customer service and account management experience gained from diverse organizations, including Fortune 500 companies and utilities to the industrial sector and international apparel companies. She currently is manager, region customer service in the east of Entergy, Texas.

Armstrong worked for Entergy’s marketing and customer service organization from 1998 to 2004. Since 2018, she has served as an industrial account executive at Entergy Texas, where she was responsible for fostering customer relations and overseeing major projects for a broad portfolio of large industrial customers.

Armstrong attended Lamar University. She currently serves on the Workforce Solutions of Southeast Texas board, and she is an alumnus of Leadership Southeast Texas. She and her husband Joey Armstrong are both well-established professionals in the Golden Triangle business community.

Paul Koester has been in Southeast Texas for just over 19 years.  During those 19 years he has been involved in many organizations that helps to promote the area and its many community services and resources.  Currently Paul serves as Chairperson of the Board for Junior Achievement of the Golden Triangle, Salvation Army Advisory Board Member, Beaumont Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and Chairperson for the CHRISTUS Health Leadership Development Committee. 
Paul has been a member of Rotary Club of Beaumont, a graduate of Leadership Beaumont class of 2009, Boys and Girls Club of Beaumont Advisory Council Co-Chairman and volunteer for many projects in Southeast Texas.

Paul went to school at The University of Texas at San Antonio and graduated with a Bachelors of Business Administration.  Since this time, he has completed several training programs to better himself both personally and professionally.
As a Regional Director of Clinic Operations and Employer Wellness Solutions for CHRISTUS Southeast Texas,  Paul has the opportunity to meet and work with many business leaders in the Southeast Texas area. Also as the Director he has the wonderful opportunity to work with some of the best people in healthcare and one of the premier healthcare providers in the country.   

Paul was born and raised in Dallas Texas and has lived in several cities around Texas over his career including San Antonio, Lubbock, and Houston. He truly believes in the Southeast Texas area and what Beaumont has to offer not only those living here currently, but those looking for a new forever home like he found 19 years ago. 

Jeff O'Malley was named as Lamar University Director of Athletics in June 2022. O'Malley makes his way to the Golden Triangle after spending the previous 20 years at Marshall University. During his time with the Thundering Herd, O'Malley served as the Associate Director of Athletics/Chief of Staff and was the liaison to the University's General Counsel. He oversaw many facets Marshall's athletics program, including men's basketball, men's soccer, men's golf and baseball, as well as the department's academics and compliance offices.

In July 2021, O'Malley was named Interim AD serving in that position for eight months, while also being tabbed as the NCAA's Secretary-Rules Editor for Men's Basketball. That came on the heels of the Thundering Herd's men's soccer team (for which he serves as sports administrator) winning the 2020 College Cup, which was also Conference USA's first team national title.
During his tenure as Interim AD, O'Malley successfully navigated conference realignment and negotiated Marshall's move to the Sun Belt Conference, in addition to leading the department through the challenges of COVID-19 and a transition in university leadership.

O’Malley assisted former Athletics Director Mike Hamrick in the planning and launch of the department's capital campaign, which is a $30 million initiative that will be used to construct an indoor practice facility, a soccer complex, a Hall of Fame and an academic support/sports medicine translational research center. O'Malley has also been a member of the NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee and served on the NCAA Baseball Rules Committee.

At Marshall, he has direct contribution to the planning of the department's $30 million budget and a shift in conference affiliation. He also played major roles in personnel issues such as the high-profile hires of football and men's basketball coaches and the negotiation of media and marketing rights with IMG. During his tenure, Marshall's budget has nearly tripled and he has overseen the department's development efforts, raising $1.5 million for student-athlete scholarships and $500,000 for sport-specific purposes. 

O'Malley came to Marshall after serving as Associate AD for Compliance and Regulatory Affairs for six years at the University of Massachusetts. His duties at Massachusetts ranged from overseeing all compliance related issues, to serving as the department's liaison to the University General Counsel on all legal issues, to overseeing the sport of men's ice hockey, which included a budget in excess of $1 million.

A 1990 graduate of Miami (Ohio) with a degree in Accounting, O'Malley received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Dayton in 1994 and he is a member of the Ohio Bar.

In addition to his time at Massachusetts, O'Malley also served as Compliance Coordinator at the Dayton from 1994-96. He served on the board of directors of the Marshall University Child Development Academy and is a member of the Southeastern Babe Ruth Board of Directors. He also served two terms on the board of directors of the United Way of the River Cities.

Outside of his interests within the athletic department, O'Malley worked as a college basketball official for 24 years and was a member of the National Association of Sports Officials.

A Union, N.J. native, O'Malley and his wife Julie have a son, Austin, and a daughter, Mary Margaret. 

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