BELLEVUE ROTARY CLUB
January 24, 2012
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IN THIS ISSUE
Jeff Marcell, President & CEO, enterpriseSeattle (formerly the Economic Development Council of Seattle and King County) | Membership Corner | Auction Committee Meeting February 14 | Recent Bellevue Rotary Photos
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THIS WEEK AT THE BRC
GREETERS
Glen Curda & Howard Donkin
BACK TABLE DUTY
John Hepler & Adam Pinsky
INVOCATION
TBA
MUSIC
Matt Camrud
NEWEST MEMBER(S)
Earl Bell, Jeff Bradt, Todd Morton
JANUARY BIRTHDAYS
John Strathy, 01/19
John Campbell, 01/20
Pete Swindley, 01/25
Roxanne Shepherd, 01/28
Steve Hopp, 01/30
Michael Pearce, 01/31
Bill McCaughey, 01/03
Troy Roper, 01/05
Andy Barlass, 01/06
Grant Ringel, 01/09
Debbie Acton, 01/11
Linda Pillo, 01/13
Natalie Werzynski, 01/18
JANUARY ANNIVERSARIES
Kathy Korth, 10 yrs
Dale King, 10 yrs
Nancy Pasternak, 9 yrs
Jason Weese, 8 yrs
Kathleen Steele, 7 yrs
Peter Wang, 6 yrs
Paul Dressel, 5 yrs
Rachele Cawaring, 3 yrs
Janet Taylor, 2 yrs
Natalie Werzynski, 2 yrs
Tim Siegel, 2 yrs
Robin Blackbourn, 1 yr
Norris Bevan, 46 yrs
Bill Jeude, 31 yrs
Cy Oskoui, 29 yrs
Jim Hebert, 27 yrs
Ken Reid, 27 yrs
Kirk Adams, 18 yrs
Roxanne Shepherd, 17 yrs
Ken Story, 17 yrs
Pete Swindley, 16 yrs
Alan Fulp, 16 yrs
Alex Smith, 15 yrs
Debbie Acton, 10 yrs
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THIS WEEK's PROGRAM
Jeff Marcell, President & CEO
enterpriseSeattle (formerly the Economic Development Council of Seattle and King County)
Jeff Marcell is the President and Chief Executive Officer of enterpriseSeattle (formerly the Economic Development Council of Seattle and King County). He is responsible for the day-to-day management of activities and personnel, relating to the organization’s mission of business and job creation, retention, expansion, and recruitment in King County through its client-based economic development work.
Jeff joined enterpriseSeattle in July of 2004 and since that time he has rebuilt the organization’s client-based economic development program, leading a new team of business development professionals targeted on five industry clusters: aerospace, IT, life science, clean technology and international business. Over the last six years this new team has worked to assist 45 companies that have created or retained close to 4,500 primary jobs in the community with an estimated economic impact to the local economy of close to 8,800 total jobs with over $1.45 billion in new economic activity.
Jeff joined enterpriseSeattle from Austin, Texas where he was an economic development consultant with Angelou Economics. Angelou Economics is the country’s largest economic development consulting firm. They specialize in developing business retention and recruitment initiatives for communities and providing site selection consultation for companies such as Dell, Intel, Oracle, Toyota, and CITGO. Jeff worked with cities, counties and regions around the country teaching them how to attract industry and build effective economic development organizations.
Prior to being recruited by Angelou Economics, Jeff was a marketing executive in the Economic Development Division of the Greater Houston Partnership, the largest business advocacy organization in the Houston region. He was responsible for retaining and recruiting corporate expansions and relocations by marketing and promoting the Houston region nationally and internationally. During his term with the Partnership, the organization brought in over 25,000 jobs to the Houston region with 3.4 billion dollars in annual economic impact to the community.
In 2007 Jeff was named as one of the Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40 Under 40. He is the current Board President of the NW Next Leaders Council-the alumni association for 40 Under 40 honorees. Jeff also serves as a Board Member of the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County and the Washington Economic Development Association. Additionally he is a member of the Curriculum Committee of Leadership Tomorrow.
Jeff holds a doctorate of jurisprudence from South Texas College of Law and Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Why is being a Sponsor so important? There are many reasons, but in addition to being a very rewarding personal experience, active recruiting is critical to the Club’s very existence and stature in our Community. We can depend on losing at least 10% of our members each year through normal attrition, which is 20 people a year!
Michael Pearce, Auction Committee Chair
There will be an Auction Committee Head meeting immediately following the luncheon on February 14. It will be held in the Inslee Best 19th floor conference room.