{"id":54493,"date":"2014-03-29T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=54493"},"modified":"2014-03-29T08:53:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T12:53:18","slug":"morrisville-state-lecture-features-local-economic-leader-president-of-centerstate-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=54493","title":{"rendered":"Morrisville State lecture features local Economic leader, president of CenterState CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Morrisville<\/a><\/p>\n

(Morrisville, NY \u2013 March 2014) Rob Simpson, President and CEO of CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity (CEO), will give a presentation at Morrisville State on\u00a0April 3.<\/p>\n

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held at\u00a01 p.m.\u00a0in Charlton Hall, Room 125. Simpson is a key economic development figure in Central New York, having been the Governor\u2019s appointed co-chair on Economic Development and allocation of state funds for CNY. He is also the leader of many of the current economic development initiatives in the region, working with the Governor\u2019s StartUp NY initiatives.<\/p>\n

In his presentation,\u00a0Economic Development and the Revitalization of Central New York, Simpson will share his path to success, discuss the importance of economic development to local cities\/towns, and provide key points on the revitalization of Central New York.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Simpson was appointed by the Governor to serve as co-chair of the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council (CNY REDC), a commission responsible for coordinating economic development for Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga, and Oswego counties.<\/p>\n

In recent years, CenterState CEO has received national attention for its innovative, integrated approach to business, economic and community development. Under Simpson\u2019s leadership, CEO has engaged prominent national organizations, including the Ford, Surdna and Kauffman Foundations, to further this work.<\/p>\n

Prior to joining CenterState CEO, Simpson worked for Defenders of Wildlife, in Washington, D.C., served as policy director for the State Environmental Resource Center, in Madison, Wis., and served as assistant legislative director for the Office of John D. Rockefeller, IV, in the United States Senate.<\/p>\n

Simpson, of Syracuse, earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from Colgate University and a master\u2019s degree in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.<\/p>\n

The lecture is sponsored by the Pyramid Broker Lecture Series.<\/p>\n

The CenterState CEO is a 12-county business leadership and economic development organization, based in Syracuse, which represents more than\u00a02,000 members\u00a0and serves as the region’s primary economic, community and business development catalyst.<\/p>\n

Morrisville State sets the world in motion for students. Curricula are enriched with applied learning and pave the way for opportunity at both the Morrisville and Norwich campuses. An action-oriented, interactive learning lab, the college is a national leader in technology. Lauded for its exemplary, innovative and effective community service programs, the college was named to the 2012 President\u2019s Higher Community Education Service Honor Roll. The college was recognized, by\u00a0U.S. News and World Report,\u00a0in its top tier Best Regional Colleges list and ranked second among regional colleges nationwide for outperforming its anticipated graduation rate.<\/p>\n

Visit\u00a0www.morrisville.edu<\/a>\u00a0to experience,\u00a0Morrisville in motion.<\/p>\n

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(Morrisville, NY \u2013 March 2014) Rob Simpson, President and CEO of CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity (CEO), will give a presentation at Morrisville State on\u00a0April 3. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held at\u00a01 p.m.\u00a0in Charlton Hall, Room 125. Simpson is a key economic development figure in Central New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-eaV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}