Consultant Connect has named BE NKY’s Vice President of Economic Development Kimberly Rossetti as one of North America’s Top 50 Economic Developers of 2024.
BE NKY Growth Partnership is a regional economic development organization. Rossetti leads BE NKY’s economic development team, which is focused on attracting new businesses to NKY and helping existing companies grow and expand.
“After joining BE NKY in 2019, Kimberly built an entirely new economic development team from scratch, and this team continues to bring success and good-paying jobs to our region,” BE NKY CEO Lee Crume said in the release. “Kimberly’s leadership has enabled us to exceed our capital investment goals every year since 2020 and I cannot think of anyone more deserving of this honor.”
Since 2020, Rossetti and her team have won 97 projects, representing nearly $1.2 billion in capital investment and 7,189 new jobs announced, according to a BE NKY press release.
Throughout 2021, Kimberly led a Target Industry Study with consulting firm Ernst & Young that identified industry clusters important to the economic growth of our region. Rossetti and her team are continuing to build a business growth plan around these clusters.