Northern Kentucky Tri-ED names Jacob Edmonds as organization’s first Business Growth Manager

The Northern Kentucky Tri-County Financial Improvement Company (Tri-ED) has introduced Jacob Edmonds has been promoted to Enterprise Progress Supervisor, a newly created function within the firm.

In his new function, Edmonds will develop and ship an financial improvement lead technology technique that can appeal to new main trade firms to Northern Kentucky. This place directs enterprise growth and attraction efforts via a focused trade method with custom-made information evaluation and prospect improvement spurring financial progress. He may also conduct analysis on alternatives for brand spanking new enterprise leads and preserve updated on financial improvement, enterprise, and trade developments.

“Focused Enterprise Progress is without doubt one of the initiatives we’re launching on account of the success of our Construct + Elevate NKY investor marketing campaign,” mentioned Tri-ED President & CEO Lee Crume. “As we thought of the launch of this new work, Jacob’s historical past with Tri-ED and his experience with the Northern Kentucky enterprise group made him best for the brand new function.”

Edmonds will proceed to play a key function on the financial improvement staff managed by Vice President Kimberly Rossetti.

“Jacob has taken on rising duty and helped launch the Goal Trade Examine earlier this yr, monitoring firms in Northern Kentucky by sector and subsector,” Rossetti mentioned. “He’ll construct on that work in his new function by figuring out key enterprise information to generate lead profiles that align with and assist Northern Kentucky’s goal industries.”

Edmonds joined Tri-ED in 2018 as Financial Improvement Specialist managing Tri-ED’s Websites & Buildings portal via Zoom Prospector, responses to RFIs and group information sources. He holds a grasp’s diploma in Public Administration with a specialization in Group and Financial Improvement from the College of Louisville and a bachelor’s in Political Science from Northern Kentucky College. He’s a member of the Worldwide Financial Improvement Council (IEDC) Younger Professionals Advisory Committee.

Earlier this yr, Tri-ED launched the Construct + Elevate NKY marketing campaign and on July 1 started engaged on 4 key initiatives along with its core financial improvement work.

• Information-Knowledgeable Group Resolution-Making
• Activate the Northern Kentucky Port Authority
• Ship Personalized Workforce Options
• Focused Enterprise Progress

Tri-ED introduced in February that greater than 40 firms have invested and that 66% of the $4.5 million marketing campaign funding objective has been raised. To study extra about Construct + Elevate NKY, go to be-nky.com.

In January, a Goal Trade Evaluation by EY discovered that Northern Kentucky led job creation in Kentucky from 2015 – 2020. The evaluation confirmed important employment progress in 4 goal sectors: Superior Manufacturing, Data Know-how, Life Sciences, and Provide Chain Administration & Help Companies. The roles and capital expenditures introduced in 2021 complement the employment progress that the area skilled from 2015 – 2019.

Since its founding in 1987, Northern Kentucky Tri-ED has led the profitable relocation or growth efforts for 746 enterprise initiatives, representing greater than 71,800 main trade jobs created with a capital funding of greater than $9 billion.

Tri-ED is ruled by a twenty-three-member board of administrators, comprised of enterprise and group leaders, who’re unpaid volunteers. The Boone, Campbell and Kenton County Fiscal Courts every appoint members to the Board of Administrators.

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