Gene DePrez, Managing Partner served as Senior
Strategic Advisor in late 2015 to provincial and municipal leaders and mayors
in the Toronto Metropolitan Area of Ontario, Canada as they formed a new
Regional Foreign Investment Attraction Development Corporation. Global
Innovation Partners teamed with Ontario-based Global Investment Attraction
Group in the three-month consulting engagement to set a strategic
direction based on best practices from across North America.
Mr. DePrez was also featured at the International
Economic Development Council’s Annual Summit held in Anchorage, Alaska in
October, speaking on Global Business Location Investment Trends at
both a ”Live from Anchorage” global webcast, and moderating the Summit’s
closing session.
DePrez was also invited by IEDC, where he
serves as Visiting Senior Fellow to conduct a Best Practices Leadership Roundtable
for a select group of international major city-region economic development CEOs
as part of IEDC’s 2016 Leadership Summit in New Orleans in late January.
He has also been named to the Professional Site
Selector Advisory Board of StateBook
International, the first online
marketplace for site selection and economic growth and development
In his community service, Mr. DePrez was
recently re-elected as Board Chair and President of the Lake Mohawk
Preservation Foundation with a mission of improving water quality within the
Wallkill River watershed of New Jersey and New York states in the US.
