Coffee & Community is a Young Professionals event, which connects Young Professionals to community leaders and provides informational sessions about issues that impact their region.

Our Jefferson Chamber Young Professionals will hear from Nathalie Simon, Special Counsel to the CEO & President - Public Policy Initiatives with Laitram, John Landrum, Vice President for Innovation with Intralox,  and Andrew Koehler, Commercial Operations Supervisor, with Intralox. They will speak about corporate culture and social responsibility. Laitram is a global manufacturing leader across multiple industries, with over 4,000 employees, over 1300 actively held patents, and 11 locations worldwide. With great power comes great responsibility. To learn more about the company and their philosophy, click here: https://www.laitram.com/life-at-laitram.

*This event is for young professionals in their 20s and 30s.



John Landrum, Vice President for Product Innovation and Marketing, Intralox LLC
John currently serves on the boards of Bureau of Governmental Research and the Idea Village. John previously served as co-founder and President of Young Leadership Council, Board Chair of Lighthouse Louisiana, Board Treasurer of New Orleans Museum of Art, and Board Chair of KIPP New Orleans Schools.  John is creator and host of Triple Win Workplace podcast series.  John is married to Martha McDermott Landrum and is the father of two adult children, Sarah and George.

Nathalie Simon, Special Counsel to the CEO & Presidentt - Public Policy Initiatives, Laitram
Nathalie works on local, regional, state, and federal policy issues that enable Louisiana to be a better place to live and prosper. She works closely with numerous external and stakeholders and holds several leadership positions guiding city and state-wide reform. This led, among other initiatives, to the creation of Smart on Crime Louisiana, which Nathalie has helped spearhead since 2013. This work was critical to the passage of the historic JRI reforms of 2017 and her work associated with Smart on Crime continues today. Nathalie routinely sits on numerous panels on regional and state policy issues and is a fixture at the Louisiana Pelican Institute’s Annual Solutions Summit. Nathalie is also engaged in the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility work and lead’s the Global Community Engagement Team. A self-proclaimed “recovering big-firm lawyer”, Nathalie is a good government and civil liberties champion. Nathalie is a former board member and officer of BGR and current board member and officer of the Public Affairs Research Council. She is engaged on various other boards, including the BCM Foundation and Ogden Museum of Southern Art.​Coffee & Community is a Young Professionals event, which connects Young Professionals to community leaders and provides informational sessions about issues that impact their region.

Andrew Koehler, Commercial Operations Supervisor, Intralox LLC.
A native of New Orleans, Andrew works as a Commercial Operations Supervisor at Intralox, a global business-to-business manufacturing company headquartered in Harahan, LA. As a company that promotes self-management and a curious mindset, Intralox has challenged Andrew for the last 10 years into continuously improving and expanding his areas of focus; both professionally and civically.
 
Andrew currently serves on Young Leadership Council’s board of directors and strives to fulfill its mission of growing the city’s leadership through community-based projects. Since 2016, Andrew has held a range of leadership roles at YLC including Project Leader, Vice President of Membership, and currently President of Board of Directors. In addition to YLC, Andrew serves on GNO Inc.’s NextGen Council and is involved with his high school’s alumni-relations efforts. A graduate of Brother Martin, LSU, and LSU’s MBA program, Andrew lives in New Orleans with his wife, Alexandra, a family nurse practitioner, and sons, James and Thomas.