Rick Baker

President & CEO

Illinois Quad City Chamber of Commerce

Rick Baker is the President/CEO of the Illinois Quad City Chamber of Commerce. He began his career in chamber management in 1988 in Rochester, MN later moving to Newton, IA before accepting his current position in March of 1994.

Rick is a 1995 graduate of the University of Colorado Institute for Organization Management.  He is an active member of the American Chamber of Commerce Executives, Board member for the Illinois Chamber PAC, past Chairman of the Illinois Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (IACCE), Member of the Emerging Technologies Committee of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and former Board member of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce.

Locally, Rick is Chairman of the Rock Island Community Foundation, immediate Past Chairman of the Board of Directors for Robert Young Center for Community Mental Health and serves as a Board member for the Workforce Development Board, Adler Theater Foundation, and New Ventures Initiative Board.

Rick has two children Jennifer and Brian who attend school in the Moline Public School system.