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VisionFirst Advisors Announces Brenda Lathan as Senior Consultant
TALLAHASSEE, FL – Today, Gray Swoope, President & CEO of VisionFirst Advisors announced Brenda Lathan, CEcD has joined the firm as a senior consultant. Brenda has more than 20 years of experience in rural and regional economic development, most recently serving as...
We are all in this Together
Recovery = Restore + Resiliency + Renewal + TransformationAPRIL 22, 2020 – SERIES 1 OF 6 The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis that none of us have experienced. Watching its daily impact on so many lives has been sobering. Equally sobering is the impact on...
VisionFirst Operations Update
Dear Friends: We hope this email finds you healthy and managing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The events of the last few weeks have marked an inconceivable disruption in all of our business and personal lives. Since our beginning, VisionFirst Advisors has...
VisionFirst Celebrates 5 Years
Hard to believe if was five years ago today we launched VisionFirst Advisors as part of the Butler Snow LLP family of enterprise companies with offices in Tallahassee, Orlando and Jackson Mississippi. Our firm continues to grow with economic development strategy about...
Natchez Inc. Review Presented
Natchez Democrat - Natchez and Vidalia both have strengths that could further economic development in the region, one of them being a unique creative economy with filmmakers, artists, novelists and musicians, an economic development consultant told community leaders...
Jackson County Economic Development Committee hires advisors to develop growth plan
Jackson County Floridian - A local economic development team has hired a former top Florida official to lead the development of a strategy for growth, and a plan to put it into action. Former Florida Secretary of Commerce Gray Swoope and his team at VisionFirst...
Celebrating the Life of Melissa Medley
A public memorial service will be held on February 24 at 4:00 pm at The Hattiesburg Lake Terrace Convention Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Melissa Renee Medley, loving daughter, mother, grandmother, sister and friend, passed away suddenly on Friday,...
Gray Swoope Selected as one of Florida’s 500 Most Influential
Recently, Gray Swoope, President and CEO of VisionFirst Advisors was named one of Florida Trend's 500 Most Influential Business Leaders in the state. Recognized in the professional services category, it is an honor that represents his commitment, energy and...
Natchez Inc. Selects VisionFirst Advisors to Develop Economic Development Strategic Assessment
NATCHEZ, MS– Today, Natchez, Inc.’s executive director Chandler Russ announced the selection of VisionFirst Advisors to develop an Economic Development Strategic Assessment to create a community strategy with a corresponding action plan for implementation. ...
VisionFirst Partners with Motus on 15-Month Search that Selects Alabama
Yesterday, Governor Kay Ivey of Alabama announced that Motus Integrated Technologies, a Tier 1 supplier of automotive interior products to the world’s automakers, has selected the City of Gadsden, in Etowah County, as the location for its new manufacturing...