MARQUETTE, MI-- The new U.P.-wide economic development initiative unveiled last year has a new chief.
Marty Fittante has been named as the CEO of Invest UP, effective January 1, 2019. Currently the chief of staff for Michigan State Senator Tom Casperson, he also serves as the legislative director for the Senate Transportation Committee.
Fittante owns an accounting firm in Iron Mountain. He worked on legislation that led to the Healthy Michigan Forestry Package. He also contributed to the passage of legislation which led to the opening of the Eagle Mine. As a policy advisor in the House Policy Office he managed three statewide task forces that addressed job creation, education, and agriculture.
Fittante will work with interim Invest UP Executive Director and board member Karyn Olsson in the coming months to ease the transition.
