Norris Krueger, Ph.D. Entrepreneurship Northwest

Dr. Norris Krueger has long experience at entrepreneurship-led economic development. One of the world’s experts at how to nurture entrepreneurial thinking, especially expert entrepreneurial thinking, his work has ranged from public policy analysis to cutting-edge research to designing entrepreneurial education and training programs that have won multiple national best practice awards. He also has a wide range of consulting and high tech entrepreneurial experience.

Bob Uhlenkott, Chief Research Officer for the Idaho Department of Labor

Bob Uhlenkott is the chief research officer for the Idaho Department of Labor and has been with the department since 2000. He manages the department’s Research and Analysis Unit, which is responsible for several federal and state research and survey programs. Prior to his employment with the Idaho Department of Labor, he was director of the Idaho Statistical Analysis Center at the Idaho State Police and he also worked in the Program Formulation Division of the U.S. Department of Energy where he studied leverage points of wealth creation in the U.S. economy.

Dr. Bert Glandon, President of College of Western Idaho

Dr. Bert Glandon joined College of Western Idaho, Idaho’s newest community college, during its unprecedented growth stage. Under his leadership the College is focused on meeting this demand for affordable education and becoming an economic resource for the area’s business and industry. Dr. Glandon is a seasoned leader with more than 31 years of community college experience and several years in corporate business. Actively engaged in the community, Dr. Glandon is an advisory board member for the Higher Education Research and Development Institute; co-chair for the Workforce Subcommittee of the Idaho Technology Council; a member of Boise Valley Economic Council; and, by appointment of the Governor, is a member of the Idaho Workforce Development Council.

Hamilton Galloway, Economist and Consulting Manager, EMSI

Mr. Galloway is an economist and consulting manager with EMSI who specializes in conducting regional economic impact analysis, modeling, regression analysis, forecasting, spatial statistical analysis and time series analysis. In the last year, he has completed several projects focused on career pathway modeling, regional planning, economic impacts and education planning. More recent work has focused on assisting local, regional, state and national organizations in understanding workforce needs, career transition possibilities and education program linkages. Mr. Galloway has further completed independent research on classifying and quantifying regional knowledge and innovation economies through analysis of workforce, education and industry components.

Wayne Brown, J.D., Director of Human Resources and Career Development with the Avenue Scholars Foundation

Wayne Brown, J.D., is director of human resources and career development with the Avenue Scholars Foundation in Omaha. The program is designed to provide intrusive support for students of talent and need through high school, college, and into the workforce.

Rebecca Metty-Burns, Executive Director of College of Southern Nevada’s Division of Workforce and Economic Development

Rebecca Metty-Burns is the Executive Director of College of Southern Nevada’s Division of Workforce and Economic Development.  In her position, she is responsible for overseeing the Division’s industry workforce programs.  She manages the assessment of the region’s business and industry education and training requirements and builds the workforce strategies to be deployed by the division.  She leads a staff of workforce coordinators and specialists who assist business and industry, local government and educational institutions in the design, development and implementation of new programs and initiatives to meet the workforce needs of Southern Nevada.

Scott Sheely, Executive Director of the Lancaster County Workforce Investment Board

Scott J. Sheely has been the Executive Director of the Lancaster County Workforce Investment Board, one of 22 such boards in Pennsylvania, since 2000.  Vocationally, he has worked as the human resources director of a large mental health agency, the operations manager of a nursing home chain, the associate pastor of a church, and the owner of a regional wholesale jewelry business.  A graduate of Franklin and Marshall College in government, Wright State University in mental health counseling, and United Theological Seminary in pastoral counseling, Scott is currently a doctoral candidate in adult and workforce education at Penn State University

Deidre Myers, Director of Policy, Research and Economic Analysis at the Oklahoma Department of Commerce

Deidre Myers currently serves as the Director of Policy, Research and Economic Analysis at the Oklahoma Department of Commerce.  Her team provides economic, demographic and labor data and analysis to state leadership, develops and advises on economic policy formulation, performs business intelligence, and conducts research for the Governor’s Council on Workforce and Economic Development.  In addition, the division houses the Oklahoma State Data Center which is the state’s lead agency to the US Census Bureau.

Michael Corbit, Business Projects Regional Consultant for Workforce Solutions and Florida’s Research Coast

Michael Corbit is the Business Projects Regional Consultant for Workforce Solutions and Florida’s Research Coast. He primarily focuses on Economic Gardening which aims to identify emerging entrepreneurs in small and medium businesses in Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee and St. Lucie counties on Florida’s Research Coast. These are business minded people with a strong desire and aptitude to grow their operations and reach the next level. Through Workforce Solutions Michael collaborates with regional businesses, government, education & industry leaders to spur job growth and economic development.

Linda Mannering, Director of Institutional Research at the University of Nebraska at Omaha

Linda Mannering is the Director of Institutional Research at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. As Director of Institutional Research, her current responsibilities are the development of campus management information and institutional studies. The Office of Institutional Research consists of four professional staff including the director. Coordination of campus-wide surveys, the UNO campus e-portfolio, the VSA College Portrait, and a campus data warehouse are recent new undertakings. Currently, she is serving a three-year term as the Institutional Research AASCU representative on the national VSA Oversight Board that will oversee the review and further development of the College Portrait.

Tom Prendergast, Director of Institutional Research at North Central State College

Tom Prendergast is director of institutional research at North Central State College in Mansfield, Ohio. His department supports various college/community initiatives with data and analysis. Tom is an active user of EMSI data and uses it to support grant applications, program review, program development, business site selection, and other workforce/economic development projects. Tom collaborated with EMSI to help develop Career Coach, and North Central State was one of the first colleges in the nation to implement the career guidance tool.

Josh Stevenson, Analyst Product Manager

Larson Hicks, Career Coach Product Manager

Bruce Evans, VP of Product Development at EMSI

Bruce Evans joined EMSI in 2010 to oversee the development of EMSI’s industry-leading labor market data tools. Mr. Evans brings over 15 years of high-tech product development experience, including leading development of data-intensive tools for process simulation and factor analysis. Mr. Evans has also held leadership positions in higher education, at an international non-profit, and as an entrepreneur helping to start a West Coast-based green building company focusing on LEED-certified homes.

Annike Crapuchettes, VP of Consulting at EMSI

Annike Crapuchettes is EMSI’s VP of Consulting Services. Since joining the firm in 2000, she has collaborated on more than 900 Economic Impact Studies (EIS) for higher education institutions in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. In addition to the EIS, Mrs. Crapuchettes has worked on a variety of projects, including two nationwide analyses of the socioeconomic impacts of community colleges and technical institutes in the US and Canada, and, more recently, conversion of the EIS model to accommodate the Further Education (FE) sector in the UK and the Technical and Further Education (TAFE) sector in Australia.

Andrew Crapuchettes, CEO of EMSI

Andrew Crapuchettes is the Chief Executive Officer of EMSI. He has been in the high-tech industry for 15 years, working with 3D modeling and software design.  He has done business process automation for companies such as Fleetwood, Applied Materials, Triad Speakers, ITD (Idaho Transportation Department), and others.  Mr. Crapuchettes has taught classes on 3D modeling and software architecture in universities as a consultant at the graduate level. More recently he has co-authored papers and given speeches on economic development, Input/Output analysis, community college curricula demand, and career pathways.

Rob Sentz, VP of Marketing at EMSI

Robert Sentz currently serves as the VP of Marketing for EMSI, an Idaho-based economics firm that blends labor market data, economic theory, and user-friendly technology to make economic information accessible to local workforce and economic development professionals so they can make better decisions for the benefit of their community’s businesses and workers. In addition to this work, Mr. Sentz graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in environmental Science, where he was instructed in a broad range of curriculum around environmental law, ethics, ecology, and economics. Lately he has prepared five papers on the topic of green jobs and labor market data.

Deacon James, Data Department Manager of EMSI

Deacon James is the Data Department Manager at EMSI, where he has worked since 2002. His focus has primarily been to bring more data at increasingly detailed level to users in order to help them make better informed decisions. Mr. James has designed and developed processes for creating industry, occupation, and demographic data at the national, state, county, and ZIP code levels. These enhancements and developments have helped to make EMSI’s labor market data among the best available. In addition to this, he has done web design, consulting, and international labor studies.