Jeffrey Prosser, president of Innovative Communication Corp., will be the keynote speaker at the May 15 annual meeting of the St. Thomas-St. John Chamber of Commerce.
Prosser, who lives on St. Croix, owns the Virgin Islands Telephone Corp., the V.I. Daily News, St. Thomas-St. John Cable Television, St. Croix Cable Television and V.I. Community Bank, among other local companies. He has an application pending to buy nine branches of the Chase Manhattan Bank in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands.
Prosser was the subject of a controversial front-page article in the Wall Street Journal in February entitled "A guy from Nebraska Hits It Big in St. Croix But Triggers a Backlash."
The annual business meeting will begin at 11:30 a.m. Monday, May 15, at Marriott Frenchman's Reef Beach Resort. The luncheon will begin at noon and Prosser will make his remarks at 12:30 p.m.
The public and chamber members are welcome to attend. The cost for lunch is $25 for chamber members and $35 for others.
Joe Aubain, chamber executive director, asked those who plan to attend to call 776-0100 to make a reservation no later than 4 p.m. Thursday, May 11.
