Teams: Executive Team

Executive Vice President

Dana Jennings is Executive Vice President at the Dallas Regional Chamber (DRC), which has been recognized as National Chamber of the Year. In this role, she reports directly to the President & CEO, provides strategic direction on all communications, marketing, and events, and coordinates the DRC’s Research & Innovation, Economic Development, and Education, Talent & Workforce teams.

Jennings leads the DRC’s brand strategy, working to position the DRC as an influential leader in the Dallas Region and beyond through long-form and digital content, earned and paid media, and rewarding in-person experiences at DRC events. Jennings serves as the DRC’s primary contact for media and manages all messaging for the DRC’s business and legislative priorities.

In close coordination with the President & CEO, Jennings works to ensure strategic alignment across DRC departments and that the organization’s programs and messaging remain mission-driven and impactful.

Before joining the DRC in January 2023, Jennings held several communications roles of increasing responsibility at The University of Texas at Arlington. Her responsibilities included working directly with the university’s leadership to develop a comprehensive campus communications strategy that engaged students, faculty, and staff across all channels with uniform messages regarding news, business, high-priority events, and crisis response situations.

Earlier in her career, Jennings led executive communications for the Texas Tech University System under the leadership of Chancellor Robert L. Duncan. At the System, Jennings created all messaging to support the successful development of the Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine, including an academic feasibility report for the Texas Legislature and collateral for a multi-million dollar fundraising effort.

A proud Red Raider, Jennings earned a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations and a Master of Arts in Mass Communications from Texas Tech University. Jennings resides in her hometown, Arlington, Texas, with her husband, Chad.

Executive Vice President

Meghan Kelley Wehner is Executive Vice President at the Dallas Regional Chamber (DRC), which has been recognized as the National Chamber of the Year. In her role, Kelley Wehner reports directly to the CEO and provides strategic oversight across Revenue Growth, Business Intelligence, and Member Engagement.

Kelley Wehner’s work is centered on ensuring the DRC delivers best-in-class member services and experiences that drive value for more than 700 companies and their employees throughout the Dallas Region. She helps lead initiatives that connect these companies with the DRC’s strategic priorities — Prosperity & Economic Development; Education, Talent & Workforce; Public Policy; and Quality of Life — while cultivating executive-level relationships and developing creative engagement strategies. Kelley Wehner collaborates closely with the CEO and senior DRC team to align organizational strategy and ensures the DRC always operates with a clear focus on mission and measurable impact.

Under her leadership, Kelley Wehner’s teams focus on creating customized partnership opportunities, maximizing revenue streams, and increasing engagement through membership, sponsorship, branding opportunities, and the Tomorrow Fund — an unrestricted accelerator fund supporting the DRC’s strategic plan.

Kelley Wehner joined the DRC in 2013 as a member of the membership team. During her tenure, she has initiated and strengthened relationships with hundreds of companies of varying sizes and geographic locations, bolstering the chamber’s regional influence. She has played a key role in multiple strategic planning efforts, led the implementation of a new Customer Relationship Management system, and helped the DRC win the National Chamber of the Year. Early in her career, she was recognized with multiple lifetime achievement awards for her work in revenue generation, ACCE’s 40 Under 40, as well as national chamber salesperson of the year several times. Kelley Wehner serves on the Junior League of Dallas Advisory Board and Klyde Warren Park Corporate Council.

Prior to joining the DRC, Kelley Wehner worked in marketing and corporate event planning, experiences that helped shape her approach to meaningful member experiences, revenue generation, and relationship management. She is a proud alumna of Texas A&M University, holding a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in marketing. Kelley Wehner and her husband, Tyler, are Dallas-area natives and are thrilled to raise their three young children in North Texas.

President & CEO, Dallas Regional Chamber

Dale A. Petroskey is President and CEO at the Dallas Regional Chamber (DRC), which has been recognized as National Chamber of the Year. Petroskey, who assumed the position on April 1, 2014, works with the Board, staff, and more than 700 member companies to increase economic prosperity and enhance the quality of life for all throughout the region. The DRC focuses on economic development initiatives, improving education at all levels, setting public policy direction designed to maintain a pro-business, pro-growth climate in North Texas, and narrowing the opportunity gaps which exist in the region. 

Mr. Petroskey brings to the DRC a strong background in public policy, strategic communications, and nonprofit management, having held leadership positions in all three sectors — public, private, and nonprofit — for more than 40 years.  

After graduating from Michigan State University, he worked 18 years in Washington, D.C., where he served as Chief of Staff to Congressman Bill Goodling (PA), Assistant White House Press Secretary to President Ronald Reagan, and Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Transportation under then-Secretary Elizabeth Dole.  

At The White House, Mr. Petroskey served as a spokesman for President Reagan and led the staff responsible for the preparation of every official White House document released to the media. In addition, he traveled extensively and accompanied the President to his historic first meetings with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, in Geneva, Switzerland in November 1985, and in Reykjavik, Iceland in October 1986. He also accompanied the President and Mrs. Reagan to Camp David on 10 different weekends.  

From 1988-1999, Mr. Petroskey served as a senior executive at the National Geographic Society, the world’s largest educational membership organization. He was named the first-ever Vice President of Public Affairs in 1988 and was promoted to Senior Vice President of Mission Programs in 1996. In that role, he was the senior executive responsible for the committee that funded scientific research and exploration projects for well-known scientists and explorers such as Jane Goodall, Bob Ballard, and Sylvia Earle. He also oversaw a 50-state geography education program, which still includes the National Geography Bee, which was hosted for years by Alex Trebek, as well as exhibits, the public lectures program, and fundraising.  

From 1999-2008, Mr. Petroskey was President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, where he was the primary link to all living Hall of Famers and their families, and led the day-to-day operations of one of the nation’s best-known and most respected museums – a premier symbol of American achievement. While there, he was instrumental in launching the museum’s first-ever national traveling exhibition, Baseball As America, which was seen by more than 2 million visitors in 15 respected museums throughout the U.S., including the Dallas Museum of Nature and Science at Fair Park. The first induction ceremony Mr. Petroskey oversaw in 1999 welcomed George Brett, Nolan Ryan, Robin Yount, and Orlando Cepeda to the Hall of Fame in front of a crowd of 50,000 – the largest to that point. That number was eclipsed in 2007, the final induction of Mr. Petroskey’s tenure, when Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn drew more than 75,000. Membership grew from 4,000 to 32,000 during his tenure, and he also helped create the Hall of Fame’s Development Office, which now provides an important source of revenue.  

One of his greatest sources of satisfaction and pride was working closely with the Board to initiate and implement a one-time-only, five-year study and process for considering and electing Negro League players, managers, and executives. That process resulted in the election of 17 Negro Leaguers in 2006, nearly doubling the number in the Hall of Fame.  

Mr. Petroskey is a member of numerous Boards, including The Alfalfa Club of Washington D.C.; EducateDallas; KERA, the Dallas-Ft. Worth public radio and TV station; the Dallas Mavericks Advisory Council; and the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation. In 2025, he was inducted into the Dallas Business Hall of Fame and received the Dallas Business Journal‘s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Mr. Petroskey and his wife, Ann, both graduates of Michigan State University, have three married children and three adorable grandchildren.