Our Team

Joe has served as President & CEO of the GFMEDC since July 2018. Prior, Joe spent nearly twenty-five years as President and CEO of five private and non-profit business development organizations in Iowa (Cedar Falls, Manchester, Iowa City) and Colorado (Colorado Springs). He has experience in downtown, rural and metropolitan economic development, including workforce development, existing industry services, public policy, business attraction, and innovation and entrepreneurship. The Main Street program he oversaw was later recognized as a National Main Street award recipient. His workforce and existing industry programming has been recognized nationally. Joe developed the state of Iowa and North Dakota’s first shovel ready sites program and co-led the nation’s first co-working facility that houses an economic development organization. He also was one of the principle leaders of developing the nation’s first demand-driven workforce systems. Since coming to the Greater Fargo Moorhead region, Joe has lead a team that has assisted more than 120 companies with expansion and relocation, investing more than $1 billion and generating more than $3 billion in economic activity.