After a nation-wide search, the Metropolis of Brandon has discovered their subsequent Director of Financial Growth near dwelling. Gerald Cathcart has been chosen to steer Brandon’s Financial Growth Division.
Mr. Cathcart involves the Metropolis from Assiniboine Group Faculty the place he was their Director of Group Growth, constructing and managing packages all through the western half of Manitoba.
Mr. Cathcart isn’t any stranger to the Metropolis of Brandon having been the Enterprise Growth Specialist from 2007 to 2014. He holds a Bachelor of Arts diploma, has intensive coaching in management and neighborhood financial growth, and has been concerned in a number of boards and organizations all through our neighborhood. To current and future companies, Mr. Cathcart says, “Brandon has a lot to supply together with alternatives for present enterprise to increase and new enterprise to name us dwelling. Working intently with neighborhood companions, understanding any limitations to progress will likely be a precedence.”
“It’s crucial that the Metropolis works lock-in-step with our companies and neighborhood companions in constructing our economic system,” says Metropolis Supervisor Ron Bowles. “These days, financial growth is far more holistic than strictly jobs and taxes, encompassing our academic institutes, authorities companies, Indigenous peoples, newcomers, occasions, provide chains, and builders. The variety of Brandon’s economic system throughout a number of sectors gives many alternatives for collaboration. We work with all of them.”
