Chamber Spotlight - Austin Regimbal, Marketing & Communications Director

Name: Austin Regimbal
Company Name: Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce
Title: Marketing & Communication Director
Years at Company: 2
 
What are three things you use at work every day?
Photoshop, InDesign, and Word
 
What was your first job?
Staff member at the Regal Cinemas in the Columbia Center mall
 
Where is your hometown?
Richland, WA (Go Bombers!)
 
How do you spend your free time?
Usually hanging with my wife, Jenni, and our daughter, Ellie. I also have been known to play a video game or two…
 
What are three words that best describe you?
Fun, loud, and dependable
 
What did you want to become as kid?
A movie director
 
Where is your favorite place to travel?
So far, my favorite has been Austin, TX. My dream vacation is a trip to Tokyo.
 
How long have you lived in the Tri-Cities?
20 years (I moved to Spokane for ten years after college)
 
What is the best concert you’ve been to?
Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar on the Yeezus tour at the Key Arena in 2013. Kanye wore a sequined mask on stage for the whole show, climbed a mountain in the middle of the arena, and split his leather sweatpants open. It was BONKERS.
 
How do you define success?
For me, success is the ability to go home at the end of the day without second-guessing any of the decisions that I’ve made
 
What excites you the most about the direction of the Tri-City Regional Chamber?
I love working on this team! Lori, Elisabeth, and the rest of my co-workers are all very hardworking people focused on the future of the business community.