ANN ARBOR – The Washtenaw Economic Club will wrap up another successful season with two events this fall.
The first event will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Thursday, September 28. David Behen, chief client success officer of SensCy, will speak to participants about cybersecurity. The luncheon meeting will be held in the Morris Lawrence Building on campus.
Behen is the co-founder and chief client success officer of SensCy, an Ann Arbor based cybersecurity start-up focused on small- and medium-sized organizations.
He has held executive leadership roles in the private and public sector for more than two decades where he has led award-winning information technology (IT) functions and aligned technology with the company’s business objectives.
He spent five years as the VP/CIO for La-Z-Boy where he led the global IT reinvention and development of the company’s cybersecurity program. Prior to that, he spent over six years as a cabinet member for Governor Rick Snyder as the director of the department of technology, management and budget, and chief information officer for the State of Michigan.
The final luncheon event of this year’s WEC season will be “Future Energy Demands: The Role Natural Gas will Play in Electrification,” with speakers Cedric Flowers and H.J. Decker of DTE Gas. The meeting will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, November 9, in the Morris Lawrence Building on campus.
Flowers serves as vice president of Gas Operations for DTE Gas. DTE Energy’s natural gas utility provides service to 1.3 million homes and businesses in Michigan.
Flowers has been with DTE since 2019 and is responsible for managing utility gas operations, including construction, transmission, distribution, storage and planning of DTE’s natural gas system within applicable federal, state and local regulations.
Speaking alongside Flowers will be H.J. Decker, who is currently director, sales and marketing for DTE. Decker is responsible for industrial and residential natural gas sales and marketing, home appliance repair marketing and operations, natural gas procurement for utility customers, and midstream transportation and storage services. He has been with DTE Energy for seven years.
The WEC welcomes the public to participate by either becoming a member of the Club, or purchasing available individual tickets per event.
You can become a member of the 2024 season or purchase individual tickets for each event by visiting https://www.wccnet.edu/business/economic-club/.
About Washtenaw Community College
Washtenaw Community College (WCC), Ann Arbor, Michigan, educates students through a wide range of associate and certificate programs in areas such as health care, business, STEM and advanced transportation and mobility. WCC offers accelerated and online programs and is ranked the number one community college in Michigan by Intelligent.com and Schools.com. The college also works through community, business and union partnerships to develop highly specialized training programs to meet the region’s workforce talent needs.
For more information about Washtenaw Community College, visit www.wccnet.edu.
