Meet the Team

Sherry Ratcliffe Taylor, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Mason Deerfield Chamber, is a humble servant dedicated to amplifying communities and helping businesses and professionals grow. Sherry has held this position since April 2014.

Sherry’s organizational accomplishments include leading the efforts to redefine the organization’s mission, vision, values, priority outcomes and strategic initiatives to better serve its members. Sherry also led the charge to rebrand the chamber to drive clarity and purpose for a newly defined constituency. Sherry also restructured the administrative functions to reinforce financial and employee stability while engaging and attracting members and community stakeholders to the efforts of the chamber, all during tumultuous times. Sherry has recently led the charge to form a connected non-profit to the chamber to advance strategic community development initiatives and serve as a catalyst to preserve the region’s prosperous future through a shared vision and strong Chamber of Community.

Sherry’s personal accomplishments during her tenure at the Mason Deerfield Chamber include being one of six executives featured in Chamber Executive magazine’s cover story on effective leadership in 2016. Sherry was a recipient of Lead Magazine’s Women of Influence awards for the greater Cincinnati region in 2016. She was one of 21 nationwide chamber executives accepted into the ACCE Fellowship for Education Attainment in 2017. She serves on the national Hometown Cities Council where she has been a guest speaker on helping smaller town communities start up a government affairs platform for their communities. She has also represented the Mason Deerfield Chamber and the community it serves on several national stages for speaking engagements including:

• “Small Chambers, Big Impact: Leaders in Advocacy” Presenter for the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Annual Convention in Des Moines, Iowa (2018)
• “It’s Not a Trivial Pursuit: Chamber Branding Ignite” Presenter for the Western Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Annual Conference in Henderson, Nevada (2018)
• “Singled Out: Chamber Case Studies” Presenter for the Western Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Annual Conference in Henderson, Nevada (2018)
• “Brand Blueprint” Presenter for the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee (2017)
• “Importance of Regionalism” Panelist for Tulsa Regional Chamber Intercity Visit to Cincinnati, Ohio (2016)

Prior to joining the Mason Deerfield Chamber, Sherry was the Executive Director for the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce in Illinois and resigned in 2012 to move to the Cincinnati, Ohio area for family relocation reasons. Through her dedication, the Carbondale Chamber coordinated branding efforts with the city and university to develop a cohesive community message and revamped the chamber’s website and brand to amplify the efforts. The chamber implemented and executed a business retention and expansion strategy with the city’s economic development director which led to ordinance changes and improved perception of the chamber and the city. The chamber advocated to secure nearly half of the annual funding for the Carbondale Tourism Bureau that the city was attempting to defund. Sherry was recognized as the Community Champion award recipient through the Illinois Small Business Development Center in 2011. Sherry holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. She resides in Mason with her husband, daughters, son and cat.