Fran Persechini was unanimously named President of the Collierville Chamber of Commerce on June 16, 2005. A staff member for thirteen years, she has first-hand knowledge of all Chamber functions has been an integral part of the Chamber’s growth and diverse initiatives.

As President, Persechini is responsible to the Board of Directors for the full range of activities including coordination of the program of work, budget, organizational structure and procedures, interpretation of policy, long-range planning, liaison with Town elected officials and Town staff and involvement with community organizations.  A graduate of Leadership Collierville Class of 2005, she currently serves on the Collierville Education Foundation Board of Directors.  She is also an active member of the American Chamber of Commerce Executives, West Tennessee Chamber of Commerce Executives and Memphis Regional Chamber of Commerce Existing Business Core Team.  Other community organizations she has served include Catholic Church of the Incarnation, BSA Scout Troop 331, and Kiwanis Club.

Persechini and her family moved to Collierville 13 years ago from the Army War College in Carlisle, PA.   They spent 25 years as a military family living on the West Coast, East Coast and in the Southern States and overseas in Korea, Italy and Germany.  During that time she developed her career working for the Department of the Army in various capacities and was a community volunteer in each duty assignment along with her responsibilities to battalion families during deployments to Saudi Arabia and Somalia.  A native of Boston, Massachusetts, she is a graduate of Boston Business School and Massachusetts General Hospital School of Practical Nursing. 

Persechini and her husband, Fred, have two daughters and one son.  Fred, a Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, currently teaches JROTC at Wooddale High School.  They have a daughter, Ellen, an attorney in Wilmington, NC; daughter, Jennifer, a teacher at the Lausanne Collegiate School and son, Philip, a professional pilot instructor at MTSU and serves in the Air National Guard.