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Aaron Ahlburn

Managing Director and Senior Director, Research, JLL
Amy Gerber

Executive Managing Director, Business Incentives Practice, Cushman & Wakefield
Bill Luttrell

Senior Locations Strategist, Werner Global Logistics, Werner Enterprises
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Senior Managing Director, Business Incentives Practice, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
Brian Corde

Managing Partner, Atlas Insight
Dan Levine

Practice Leader, Location Strategies and Economic Development, Oxford Economics, Inc.
Dan White

Senior Economist, Moody's Analytics
Dean J. Uminski, CEcD

Partner, Crowe Horwath
Dennis Cuneo

Partner , Fisher & Phillips
Eric Stavriotis

Senior Vice President, Advisory & Transaction Services, CBRE, Inc.
Gregory Burkart

Managing Director and City Leader, Site Selection & Incentives Advisory , Duff & Phelps, LLC
H. Robert Boehringer, III

Managing Director, Global Location & Expansion Services, KPMG
Josh Bays

Principal, Site Selection Group, LLC
Joshua Wright

VP, Economic and Workforce Development, Emsi
Kate Crowley

Principal & Negotiated Incentives Practice Leader, Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP
Les Cranmer

Senior Managing Director, Savills Studley
Marc Beauchamp

President & CEO, The CAI Global Group
Margy Sweeney

Founder and CEO, Akrete, Inc.
Minah Hall

Managing Director, True Partners Consulting LLC
Paul Naumoff

Principal, National Director of Tax Credits & Incentives Advisory Services, EY Global/Americas
Scott Kupperman

Founder, Kupperman Location Solutions
Stephen Gray

CEO, Gray Construction

Slideshow: 2014 Gold and Silver Shovel Award Recipients

Shown here are 12 of the recipients of Area Development’s 2014 Gold & Silver awards, which were bestowed in recognition of the states’ efforts to capture new facility and expansion projects that resulted in significant investment and job creation. All told, 20 states were recognized for their efforts.

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Directory 2015

Slideshow2014 Gold & Silver Shovel Award Recipients

Texas Governor Rick Perry is joined by members of his
office’s Economic Development and Tourism department to celebrate the state’s latest Gold Shovel award.

Figure 1: Arkansas Economic Development Commission Executive Director Grant Tennille holds the Silver Shovel award. He’s joined by Bentley Story (far right), director of Business Development, and other BD team members.
Figure 2: Georgia’s Governor Nathan Deal proudly displays the state’s Gold Shovel award. He’s joined by Department of Economic Development Commissioner Chris Carr (right) and Deputy Commissioner of Global Commerce Tom Croteau (left).
Figure 3: New York’s Silver Shovel award is held by Kenneth Adams, Empire State Development’s president, CEO, and commissioner.
Figure 4: Indiana Secretary of Commerce Victor Smith poses with the state’s Silver Shovel award.
Figure 5: Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear lifts the state’s Silver Shovel award.
Figure 6: Mississippi’s Silver Shovel award is raised by Governor Phil Bryant.
Figure 7: Texas Governor Rick Perry is joined by members of his office’s Economic Development and Tourism department to celebrate the state’s latest Gold Shovel award.
Figure 8: Director Mike Downing of the Missouri Department of Economic Development holds the state’s Gold Shovel award. He is pictured with team members, who helped the state earn this award.
Figure 9: John Minor, president and chief investment officer of JobsOhio, lifts the state’s Silver Shovel award.
Figure 10: New Jersey Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno poses with the state’s Silver Shovel award.
Figure 11: Utah’s Governor Gary Herbert displays the state’s Gold Shovel award.
Figure 12: Governor Nikki Haley poses with South Carolina’s Gold Shovel award.