Brooklyn Chamber appoints Caserta as director of recovery, secures $1.3M federal grant
With Brooklyn’s 62,000 small businesses and entrepreneurs on the ropes again amid skyrocketing Omicron cases, ongoing worker shortages, rent debt crises and ballooning inflation, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce has announced the appointment of a new executive director and $1.3 million in new federal funding secured by the organization to support small businesses impacted by the pandemic.
The Chamber announced Mark Caserta as its new executive director of business recovery.
Caserta, a Brooklyn resident with more than 25 years of small business advocacy and public policy experience, recently led the Park Slope 5th Avenue Business Improvement District for nearly a decade and played a key role driving pandemic recovery efforts for more than 1,100 local merchants, retailers and landlords along the popular Fifth Avenue commercial corridor.