MARQUETTE, MI-- The new, UP-wide economic development initiative now has a leader.
Joan Kimball has been selected as the executive director of Invest UP. A Laurium native, Kimball is a graduate of Marquette Senior High School and Northern Michigan University. Kimball has more than 20 years’ experience in global business development, strategic partnerships, market expansion, networking, and research.
Invest UP is a privately funded economic development group focused on reinvigorating the region’s economy through business attraction and development and talent development, recruitment and retention.
Kimball says it should take a year of ground work before the initiative will begin to make an impact. She’ll spend that first year creating a strategic plan with Invest UP’s Board of Directors.
