Katherine Goodwin serves as Senior Vice President of Business Investment at the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, where she oversees a team who work with Virginia’s regional and local economic development organizations to identify and convert high-potential leads and prospects into project opportunities, manages site selection projects, and supports business retention and expansion activities for existing firms.
The College Board to expand, will retain more than 600 existing jobs
RICHMOND—Governor Ralph Northam today announced that The College Board, a non-profit organization formed in 1900 to broaden access to higher education, will grow its operation in Fairfax County, expanding into an additional 74,000 square feet in Reston Town Center. Virginia successfully competed against Washington, D.C. for the project, which will retain 614 existing jobs and create 120 new jobs.
Jason El Koubi serves as President and CEO at the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, where he leads VEDP’s overall strategy and operations to encourage, stimulate, and support the development and expansion of the economy of the Commonwealth.
Melissa Cox serves as the Human Resource Director at the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, where she is responsible for talent acquisition and retention, performance management, total rewards, and human capital risk management.
Experience
Before joining VEDP in May 1998, Cox served as a long-term substitute teacher with Henrico County Public Schools. Cox also spent five years with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as an Office Services Specialist in the Office of Product and Industry Standards.
TemperPack to invest $10.4 million to establish packaging manufacturing operation
RICHMOND—Governor Ralph Northam today announced that TemperPack, a Richmond-headquartered manufacturer of sustainable thermal insulation for the shipment of perishable goods, will invest $10.4 million to establish a manufacturing operation in Henrico County. The facility will be the company’s second in Virginia. The project will create 141 new jobs.