GPEC Names New CEO

The Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC) has announced the selection of Southwest Michigan First CEO Barry Broome as the organization’s new President & CEO. GPEC’s board of directors met today and voted unanimously in favor of Broome’s selection. Broome has led Southwest Michigan First for five years and is expected to officially start the GPEC job by early February 2005.

I have known Barry personally since the late 1980s. In the early 1990s, I worked as a consultant to Barry and the City of Parma, Ohio to build the city's first economic development strategy. With Barry's leadership, the City successfully implemented that strategy.

I wish Barry all the best in his new assignment with GPEC.