Beth Cicchetti

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FLORIDA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, TALLAHASSEE

For 60 years, the FEDC has been a professional association of public and private economic, workforce and community development professionals. Cicchetti has been executive director since 2015. She has influenced site-readiness efforts along I-10 resulting in the Gulf to Gadsden Freight Logistics Zone, a four-county initiative aligning air, sea, rail and interstate infrastructure serving over 1,000 acres of qualified industrial sites and two greenfield developments with an annual economic impact over $10 million. She was also instrumental in finding a solution for Amazon’s quest to establish a Robotic Sorting Center in the Tallahassee MSA resulting in 1,400 jobs in the first year of operations.

EDUCATION:University of Louisiana at Monroe (BS), University of Central Florida (MS)

MENTOR: Karen Moore, CEO and founder of Moore — an advocacy, PR, and crisis communications firm ... Her advice, connections and support are consistently productive.

READING/LISTENING: Book: Buffalo Hunting in Alabama, a novel by Don Erwin. Periodical: Florida Trend. Podcast: Develop This!