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Speakers
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Stephen Moret
Secretary
Louisiana Economic Development
Prior to being appointed by Governor
Bobby Jindal as secretary of Louisiana Economic Development in 2008,
Stephen Moret served as president and CEO of the Baton Rouge Area
Chamber of Commerce (BRAC). Under Moret’s leadership from
2004-07, BRAC grew into a national-caliber, regional economic development
organization. Revenues tripled at the chamber during Moret’s
tenure, following the launch of "The Campaign for a Greater
Baton Rouge," a five-year, $15 million economic development
initiative for the nine-parish capital region.
Moret’s other professional
endeavors include working as a management consultant with McKinsey
& Company, a leading global consultancy serving senior executives
of Fortune 500 companies and large public sector organizations.
At McKinsey, he specialized in healthcare and service operations.
A native of Mississippi, Moret considers
Baton Rouge, La., his adopted hometown since attending Louisiana
State University as an undergraduate. He holds a bachelor’s
in mechanical engineering from LSU and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business
School. He is a graduate of Leadership Louisiana and was selected
for the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report’s “Top 40
Under 40.” Moret and his wife Heather have a three-year-old
son, Jackson, and a one-year-old son, Samuel.
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Elliott B. Stonecipher
Evets Management Services Inc.
Elliott Stonecipher
is the President and owner of Evets Management Services, Inc., a
full-service opinion research and marketing consulting firm he founded
in 1980. During his career he has been involved in various roles
in over 200 political campaigns at the local, state and national
level.
In addition to political campaign
services, Mr. Stonecipher's firm provides political campaign services
and serves commercial clients with opinion research, strategic and
marketing planning, and geo-demographic studies. The company's work
in these areas has been featured in various publications, including
The American Banker. In addition, Mr. Stonecipher has specialized
for over twenty years in the use of opinion research in change-of-venue
studies in criminal court cases, a field in which he is a recognized
expert.
Mr. Stonecipher frequently serves
as guest lecturer in colleges and other venues, and has taught Demographics
in the Social Sciences Department of Centenary College in Louisiana.
He is a recognized expert in political science, opinion research
and population and demographic trends, and has served as on-air
analyst for CNN Television News and various network television and
radio affiliates in his home state. Other news organizations to
which he has provided political and/or demographic analyses include:
National Public Radio (NPR), Associated Press (New York, Washington,
DC and Louisiana Capitol Bureaus), Reuters News Service, Fortune
Magazine, Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal
and many more.
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Janna Shearman CES
First American Exchange
Janna Shearman is vice president
and manager of the Louisiana office of First American Exchange Company,
a division of The First American Corporation, America’s largest
provider of business information.
She has worked in the exchange industry
since 2004 and has attained the designation of Certified Exchange
Specialist. As a frequent lecturer on 1031 exchanges, she provides
continuing education credit courses for attorneys, accountants,
title insurance agents, and REALTORS. Ms. Shearman facilitates all
types of 1031 tax-deferred exchanges, including simultaneous, delayed,
reverse, and construction exchanges of both real and personal property.
She has had articles published in several trade journals.
Before joining First American Exchange,
she worked as a commercial real estate paralegal and licensed title
insurance agent. She is a member of the New Orleans chapter of Commercial
Real Estate Women and currently serves on the Programs Committee
and is also a member of the Federation of Exchange Accommodators.
Janna delights in delivering personalized service to clients, backed
by the financial security and strength of a Fortune 500 parent company.
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Perry Pertuit
Entergy Louisiana
Perry Pertuit
is the Senior Lead Analyst for Entergy Louisiana’s Economic
Development department. Among other marketing responsibilities,
Perry performs necessary analysis to identify prospective industries
and businesses to locate in Louisiana and a plan of action to contact
these prospects, along with maintaining market trend information,
managing the Economic Development website, the Site Selection Research
Center and the Louisiana Site Selection Center website - Louisiana’s
free, statewide Buildings & Sites Database and GIS mapping application
with detailed Demographic and Business Data, Parish & Community
Profiles and a Geospatial Data Download Portal. He also works on
the annual economic development marketing plan and strategies.
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Victor Leotta
LEO, LLC
Victor Leotta launched LEO, LLC (Leotta-Evers
Consulting) in April 2008 for the purposes of providing high value
geospatial technology consulting services to state and local government.
Victor has focused his efforts on the application of GIS technology
for local and regional land use planning and economic development.
This focus led to the advent of LEO, LLC and includes performance
of targeted GIS-based site selection projects and development of
web-based GIS applications to facilitate management and distribution
of information for site selection consultants, planners, local economic
developers, and commercial real estate professionals. This includes
the innovative use of GIS-based land use suitability models to identify
optimal locations for commercial and industrial development within
a parish or region. Victor created GIS-based suitability models
that offer a more strategic use of geographic information for local
planning and regional economic development.
Prior to beginning LEO, LLC, Victor spent six
years managing the Geospatial Technology Services for C-K Associates,
LLC in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His principal objective was to develop
an expert Geospatial Technologies team while focusing C-K’s
GIS and remote sensing expertise in their core business fields of
environmental and ecological sciences. In doing so, Victor has worked
with public and private sector clients in the application of GIS
technology and remote sensing to aid in more targeted and cost effective
environmental data management and coastal restoration planning.
A 1994 business school graduate of
Louisiana State University, Victor is currently pursuing a master’s
degree from LSU in geography (Master of Natural Science) with an
emphasis on GIS and remote sensing. He serves on the steering committee
for the annual state GeoInfo Conference, the principle GIS conference
sponsored by and geared toward state government. Victor also serves
on the advisory committee for the Baton Rouge Community College
where he co-developed a new curriculum for an Associates Degree
in Geospatial Science under BRCC’s Environmental and Engineering
Technician Programs. Victor routinely speaks at trade organization
conferences, industry workshops, and local government and civic
functions on the application and value of GIS technology for planning
and economic development.
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Randy P. Roussel
Phelps Dunbar LLP
Randy Roussel is a partner in the
business group in the Baton Rouge office of Phelps Dunbar LLP. His
general business practice is concentrated in the areas of real estate,
banking, and commercial transactions. Randy has represented Wampold
Companies, Waffle House, Whitney National Bank, Gross Builders,
Inc., and a variety of multifamily and commercial developers.
Prior to joining Phelps Dunbar, Randy
was a certified public accountant for Arthur Andersen & Company
in New Orleans from 1978 to 1981. He served a judicial clerkship
for the Honorable E. Grady Jolly, United States Court of Appeals
for the Fifth Circuit, New Orleans from 1984 to 1985. From 1986
to 1987, he was an associate at Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson in
Baton Rouge and in 1987 he became partner at Bradford & Roussel
in Baton Rouge which merged with Gary Field Landry & Bradford
in 1991. Randy joined Phelps Dunbar in 1995.
Randy is among a select group of lawyers,
recognized in the category of Real Estate, listed in a nationwide
client survey published in Chambers USA, America’s Leading
Lawyers for Business.
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Scott D. Johnson
General Counsel, Louisiana REALTORS
Scott Johnson is General Counsel with
Louisiana REALTORS. He is responsible for oversight of legal/risk
management services for members, professional standards hearings,
and for providing general advice to both the state association and
local boards on a variety of issues, including association law,
antitrust issues and employment law. Scott also works closely with
the governmental affairs department and is the staff liason to the
Housing Opportunities/Diversity team.
Scott earned his B.A. from Louisiana
State University in 1990 and J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1993. Scott served as a Judge Advocate in the U.S. Marine Corps
and practiced with the Kean Miller law firm for 10 years, focusing
on toxic tort, expropriation and admiralty litigation as well as
representation of teachers in administrative hearings on grievances
and other employment-related matters. Scott joined Louisiana REALTORS
in January 2008.
You can register
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