Paige Webster started his firm in 2013. Paige has worked with many projects across many industry sectors including: aerospace, bio tech, geo-thermal, wind & solar, warehouse/distribution, office projects, data centers, corporate centers and the retail sector. Paige has been working in site selection and economic development for twenty years.

Paige has had extensive site selection experience as he was the Western Regional Real Estate Manager for Aaron Rents. Paige was able to facilitate and expand the major retail expansion for Aaron Rents in the Western United States.

Paige has had experience in the Economic Development arena too. He was the former Economic Development Director for the Greater Yuma Economic Development Corporation. Paige’s experience includes working with back office, warehouse distribution, bio-tech, software development companies and food processing companies for the Yuma area.

Paige did extensive work in cross border economic development and was a member of the Border Trade Alliance (BTA) and worked closely with the Arizona Governor’s Office on cross border issues in Mexico. Paige was on the Workforce Development Board and was also a Board Member of the Arizona Association of Economic Development (AAED). Paige has also received the CEcD designation during his career in Economic Development.

Paige also worked for the Arizona Department of Commerce as the Northern Arizona Representative, assisting companies to expand or relocate to the State of Arizona with projects related to injection molding, warehouse/distribution, back office, agro-business, bio-tech, high tech, aviation.

Paige has received his BS in Regional Development from University of Arizona and has also received his MBA in Global Management from the University of Phoenix. Paige resides in Phoenix, AZ and loves to fly fish, play golf, hunt and scuba dive.

David Gaines, Managing Director, leads the day-to-day operations of the firm’s consulting business and the firm’s commercial and industrial real estate division, Goldstone Realty Partners.

Goldstone Consulting Group provides site selection service to companies that are expanding and searching for new locations to establish operations. Goldstone Consulting Group also provides economic development consulting services to communities.

Prior to founding Goldstone Consulting Group in 2016, Mr. Gaines held leadership roles in two
local and regional economic development agencies dating back to 2007. During that time, he was responsible for the business attraction efforts for the communities he represented as well business retention and expansion programs for those communities.

David is a founding member of the Northeast Missouri Development Partnership, a 14-county regional economic development agency. He also served as the group’s first two-term Chairman of the Board of Directors and currently serves as a member of its Government Relations Committee.

He holds a degree in Business Administration from the Ashford University – Forbes School of
Business and a Chancellor’s Certificate in International Trade from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is also a graduate of the University of Oklahoma’s Economic Development Institute.

During his 30-years of business experience, David has held positions from sales and marketing to management and ownership. He has worked in the economic development, financial services, print and broadcast media, real estate and business services industries.

David has authored numerous articles for national publications on matters relating to economic development and business and is a former financial talk show host for a major market radio station. In addition, he has also been a panelist and a moderator many times on topics concerning economic development.

Lew Mollenkamp is President of American Corporate Location Services (ACLS), with offices in Fort Worth and Atlanta. ACLS specializes in effectively navigating the site selection and incentive negotiation process for its clients by providing creative solutions and strong partnerships. Lew has more than thirty years of practice in the site selection, economic development, and workforce development fields with public, private, and non-profit experience. ACLS also specializes in negotiating customized solutions for business, such as training grants from federal, state and/or local sources, solving business issues related to real estate expansions, hiring, and layoff assistance.

Industries served by the company include health care, financial services, aerospace,
manufacturing, retail, energy, non-profit, education, hospitality, government, and technology. Lew and the ACLS team also have extensive experience in developing strategic partnerships for federal grants, including securing millions in funding for clients from US DOL training grant programs. ACLS regularly serves as partner on the US DOL grants evaluation team.

Prior to founding American Corporate Location Services, Lew was Vice President of Government Partnerships for Strategic Partnerships, and Manager of the Credits and Incentives at Arthur Andersen, and Director of Economic Development for the Pampa Economic Development Corporation, Roswell, New Mexico Chamber of Commerce, and Francis Howell Missouri School District.

Jeffrey focuses on expanding NAI’s capabilities in global portfolio services through key industrial clients with requirements in North and Latin America. Jeffery is a U.S. Armed Forces Veteran and Phoenix Business Journal 40 Under 40 recipient.

Capabilities
-- Americas Portfolio Management in excess of 250 M SF
-- U.S. 150M SF Industrial
-- Mexico 50M SF Industrial
-- Latin America 50M SF Industrial
Assignments ranging from site selection, lease review/renewal, project management, tours on site in any given country.

Professional Experience
-- NAI Horizon, Executive Vice President
-- Cresa, Senior Vice President
-- APL Logistics, Senior Corporate Real Estate Director

Notable Clients

Chicanos Por La Causa, Wesco, Arizona State University, Foot-Print Center and 3M

International Clients 

Compu Proveedores, Elite Bags, REYMA, Sigma and PSAP

Education
-- Masters Real Estate Development, Arizona State University Graduated “With Honors”
-- Masters Business Administration, University of Phoenix Graduated “With Honors”
-- Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, Montana State; University Minor in Business Administration

Board Affiliations & Accolades
-- Southwest Valley Chamber of Commerce
-- U.S. Green Building Council
-- Phoenix Sister Cities
-- Global Chamber
-- Area Development
-- ASU MRED Real Estate Council

Jeff is a Senior Vice President of Location Strategies and Operations in Evergreen’s Location Strategies practice. With more than 30 years of experience in location analysis, site selection, and business incentive services, he is skilled in securing, negotiating, and implementing economic incentives such as cash grants, tax abatements and credits, PILOT agreements, workforce training grants, payroll rebates, sales and use tax refunds, utility benefits, and more for his clients. His experience ranges from large corporate headquarter relocations to small manufacturing projects across hundreds of markets throughout North America.

Before joining Evergreen, Jeff was the Executive Director for the Virginia's Growth Alliance (VGA), a regional economic development organization serving 11 counties and communities in southern Virginia. Although the primary focus of this endeavor was business recruitment. The organization also created strategies for entrepreneurship, asset, and leadership development.

Jeff previously managed projects for the Industrial Development Authority of Halifax County, Virginia, where he and his team successfully brought in over 450 new jobs and saved over 800 existing jobs within three years including projects with ABB and Faneuil. During his five years of service as the Project Manager/Interim Director/Assistant Director for the Danville Office of Economic Development in Virginia, he assisted with attracting more than 6,700 new jobs and over $700 million in new investment, including IKEA's first US manufacturing facility, EBI, Target, Home Depot, Harley Davidson and Yorktowne, and many other manufacturing, retail, and commercial projects.

Area of Expertise
Bob Westover serves as Senior Vice President and US Economics Incentives practice leader for Colliers International in Chicago. In his role, Bob works across North America to negotiate and secure local and state economic credit and incentives for our clients.

Professional Accomplishments
Guided several Fortune 1000 companies on location advisory projects including all facets of labor analytics, network optimization, and taxation profiles.
Frequent presenter at conferences on national and economic trends, and the resultant impacts on corporate location decisions and taxation or economic incentive policies. Provided testimony to various legislative bodies regarding the efficacy of current economic incentives and opportunities to improve the appeal of those incentives to corporations.

Business and Educational Background
Prior to joining Colliers, Bob served as Senior Vice President at Cresa Global Partners LLC. He joined Cresa in 2016 after spending over 11 years as director of economic development with the State of Illinois Department of Commerce, where his primary responsibilities were in business development, vetting all in-bound economic incentive requests for the legitimacy of each business case and determining the appropriate awards. Prior to his time with the State of Illinois, he served as a director of corporate development for Steris Corporation, where he led a team in the assessment of potential corporate acquisitions, closing several global deals with a market value of over $500 million. He also worked at A.T. Kearney as an associate in the strategic services group.

He earned a Master of Business Administration in finance and corporate strategy from the University of Michigan and Bachelor of Science in business administration from Miami University.

Sample Incentive Achievements
Bob has obtained economic incentives for dozens of companies in office or industrial settings of all sizes, including:

KeHE Distributors
Bytemark
Upwork
Charles Schwab
Enova Financial
Magna Automotive
FirstSource
Home Run Inn Pizza

Community Involvement
Board of Directors, Chicago District Golf Association

Education or Qualifications

MBA, Finance & Corporate Strategy, University of Michigan

BS, Business Administration , Miami University (OH)