President and CEO
JobsOhio
JP and his family live in Dayton, Ohio. He is a former Air Force officer and has been instrumental in the state of Ohio and its communities’ economic development for nearly 25 years. He led the Dayton Region through the 2005 Wright Patterson Air Force Base Realignment and Closure process, which secured additional missions and, by 2024, had doubled the number of workers at the base. He co-founded Ohio’s Hometown Heroes effort in 2003 to recognize and honor military service members and their families by providing tickets to sporting and arts events. Since then, JobsOhio has taken the Hometown Heroes programming to all seven JobsOhio Network regions, providing more than 150,000 tickets as part of Ohio’s effort to be the most military and military-family friendly state in the nation.
JP now leads JobsOhio, Ohio’s uniquely structured private economic development corporation, attracting and growing the world’s most important businesses like Intel, Anduril, Honda LG, P&G, and small businesses in every corner of Ohio. His tenure began in 2019, and Ohio has emerged as a national leader in economic development: the only state to be in the top 5 for total economic development projects and projects per capita over the last 5 years, the #1 state for public and private infrastructure investment over that same period, and positive population net-in migration for the first time in a generation. Moreover, companies that work with JobsOhio have given it world class customer satisfaction ratings for five consecutive years.
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Panel: Midwest Momentum: Driving Semiconductor Expansion
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
9:30am – 10:30am EDT