Apparently, President Obama is still welcoming résumés with “Paterson administration” on them.
Marisa Lago, the CEO of the state’s economic development agency, who quit amid frustrations, has been nominated for a high position in the Treasury Department, as the Assistant Secretary for International Markets and Development.
The move, which was announced by the Obama administration Thursday, Read More
Apparently, President Obama is still welcoming résumés with “Paterson administration” on them.
Marisa Lago, the CEO of the state’s economic development agency, who quit amid frustrations, has been nominated for a high position in the Treasury Department, as the assistant secretary for International Markets and Development.
Marisa Lago, the state’s top economic development official since August 2008, is resigning from her post, according to multiple people informed of the decision, adding to a growing number of top aides to leave the Paterson administration.
As CEO of the Empire State Development Corporation, her departure adds to the turmoil at an agency that has Read More
In February, eight months after M&T Bank chief executive Bob Wilmers was installed as chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation, the state’s main economic development agency, a new organizational structure was announced in a staff memo.
It shifted lines of command: Second from the top in a hierarchical chart, apparently overseeing the agency’s high-profile Read More
It's been a almost a year now since a newly crowned Governor Paterson -- speaking to a handful of reporters tailing him after a Sunday speaking engagement -- casually mentioned that he would reorganize the state's main development agency, the Empire State Development Corporation, abolishing the controversial upstate-downstate split among its leaders.
Now, half Read More
It's been almost a year now since a newly crowned Governor Paterson—speaking to a handful of reporters tailing him after a Sunday speaking engagement—casually mentioned that he would reorganize the state's main development agency, the Empire State Development Corporation, abolishing the controversial upstate/downstate split among its leaders.
Now, half a year after new CEO Marisa Read More
Avi Schick, the prosecutor-turned-development official who has served as downstate president of the Empire State Development Corporation for the past two years, will leave his job this week. Mr. Schick emailed a letter on Monday evening to colleagues announcing his departure (a copy of the letter is below).Mr. Schick's departure comes more than seven months Read More
A memo sent out Monday to staffers (below) brings the grim news that the state’s economic development agency, which pays out hundreds of millions in state dollars in an attempt to grow businesses and developments statewide, will Read More
