The Charlotte Regional Business Alliance® is pleased to announce Jeremiah Anderson has joined the organization as the managing director of business recruitment. In his role, Jeremiah will focus on developing and executing the regional marketing and recruitment plan.
The CLT Alliance is moving to a best practice/management consultancy model of economic development for business recruitment. The team will use industry best practices and data driven models to develop our lead generation plan of work for the city of Charlotte and the 15-county, bi-state region.
Under Jeremiah’s leadership, the team will use county profiles and individualized aspirational goals to develop a comprehensive regional playbook that will inform the opportunities pursued for the region.
“Jeremiah’s economic development background working with large scale manufacturing and Fortune 500 headquarters projects will bring key expertise to our team,” Chief Business Recruitment Officer Danny Chavez said. “His multi-state experience working in economic development ecosystems will be a great asset in achieving our goals as a bi-state regional economic development organization. Jeremiah’s leadership and experience will help grow our region’s economy. We are excited to have him on the team.”
Using Jeremiah’s experience in other markets, the business recruitment team will coordinate marketing trips to regions with high concentrations of site selection consultants as an important component of their work. The CLT Alliance will be present at industry specific conferences and trade shows as well as host key decision makers in the region for familiarization tours. Each of these touchpoints creates regional brand awareness and helps us to generate leads. The team will qualify each lead, distribute information to county partners and coordinate with them to track each project through the company’s decision-making process.
Every member of the team will be responsible for 2-3 counties in our region. This creates a more profound understanding of each community for our team but also creates a singular point of contact; all of which fully support the CLT Alliance as the organization continues to march forward with implementation of this best-practice model and manifesting the goals continued recognition as a top performing regional EDO.
“I am delighted to join the CLT Alliance and begin working with our regional economic development partners,” Jeremiah said. “The Charlotte Region has seen tremendous growth and with a new regional playbook approach, I look forward to building on the strengths of this region to position us to compete on the global stage.”
A native of Chicago, Illinois, Jeremiah holds a B.A. in Political Science from Quincy University where he was also a men’s volleyball athlete. Post undergrad, he began working on local political campaigns as a grassroots organizer in the Dallas-Fort Worth Region. This positioned Jeremiah to run the campaign for a statewide candidate, just prior to diving into his career within the economic development arena in a variety of cities experiencing high levels of success.
Working for the Fort Worth Metropolitan Black Chamber of Commerce, Jeremiah was focused on small business development and business retention. He also contributed significantly to the city’s first formal economic development strategic plan. Next, he joined the Dallas Regional Chamber helping to execute the proactive marketing efforts for the regional marketing team, oversaw the project management platform and the distribution of leads to regional partners. Jeremiah later transitioned to the Little Rock Regional Chamber where he was responsible for all proactive economic development marketing and attraction efforts for the Metro Little Rock Region. He also managed all inbound prospects that considered the region for new location opportunities.
Jeremiah is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Economic Development Institute and is currently a candidate for the International Economic Development Council, Certified Economic Developer Certificate (CEcD). Aside from economic development, Jeremiah coaches club volleyball, loves to hike, enjoys spending time with his family and friends, hunts for vinyl records, and collects raw denim.
