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Jack Youngblood NFL Hall of Famer Keynote Speaker |
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Jack Youngblood, the legendary NFL Hall of Famer, will deliver the Keynote Address at this year's 2012 Business Facilities LiveXchange. Mr. Youngblood had a storied career with the St. Louis Rams and currently serves on the NFLPA Mackey-White Traumatic Brain Injury Committee.
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Susan Liberty Vice President, Infrastructure and Economic Development McGuireWoods Consulting |
| Susan Liberty joined the McGuireWoods Infrastructure and Economic Development team in 2000. Since joining the firm, she has successfully represented major national and international companies in multiple states with site selection and relocation decisions, economic incentives negotiations and business expansion services. | |
| Mark Williams President Strategic Development Group, Inc. Workshop: Negotiating Incentives, Land Costs and Energy Costs for Major Projects |
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Mark Williams is a Certified Economic Developer with a unique and wide-ranging combination of private sector and government site location and economic development experience. During his extensive 15-year career, Mr. Williams has worked with hundreds of US-based and global corporation executives to find facility locations and negotiate location incentives for over $5 billion in U.S. investments.
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Anatalio Ubalde Co-Founder and CEO GIS Planning Inc., ZoomProspector.com & SizeUp General Session: Site Selection and Economic Development Disruptions |
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Anatalio Ubalde works with organizations throughout the nation to foster enhanced economic development strategies using Internet technology. His company's strategies are implemented in 39 states and serve the majority of the 50 largest cities in the United States. GIS Planning's ZoomProspector Enterprise web-based GIS product is the industry standard for site selection websites in economic development.
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George Tobjy Managing Director KPMG Global Location and Expansion Services (GLES) Workshop: Financial Incentives/Trends and Top Locations |
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George Tobjy has more than 20 years' experience assisting foreign and domestic companies with site selection, tax and financial analysis, import and export trade issues, and negotiating relocation and expansion incentive packages. In his career at KPMG, Mr. Tobjy has successfully managed location projects for Avaya, Cigna, IBM, TD Bank and many others.
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Jason Hickey President Hickey & Associates Think Tank: Site Selection Case History |
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Jason Hickey is the President of Hickey & Associates, a Global Site Selection and Public Incentive Support Firm specializing in location selection strategies, federal incentives, loan guarantees, grants and other public/private partnerships.
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Ed Burghard CEO and Manager Burghard Group Seminar: Creating Development Partnerships with Locations |
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As CEO and Manager of The Burghard Group, Ed Burghard introduced the Strengthening Brand America Project, an initiative to help economic development professionals better understand how to leverage the power of place branding as a strategy to become more globally competitive for capital investment.
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Dean Barber President/CEO Barber Business Advisors, LLC Seminar: Choosing a Location for a Manufacturing Facility |
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Dean Barber is President/CEO of Barber Business Advisors, which provides site selection analysis for corporations as well as economic development consulting services. Barber Business Advisors has worked with Fortune 500 and international companies with site selection analysis, incentive negotiations and startup transition.
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Jay Amer, EC.D. President Amer & Associates Economic Development Seminar: Expanding/Relocating Across Borders |
| Jay Amer is a certified economic development professional who established Amer & Associates Economic Development in January 2010. Amer & Associates provides investment attraction, government relations, economic development and site selection services to companies throughout Canada. | |
