
Red Deer is a city in Alberta, Canada, located midway on the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor.
Red Deer serves central Alberta, and its key industries include health care, retail trade, construction, oil and gas, hospitality, manufacturing and education.
It is surrounded by Red Deer County and borders on Lacombe County. The city is in aspen parkland, a region of rolling hills, alongside the Red Deer River.
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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.
Jeffrey focuses on expanding SRS'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
-- SRS Industrial, EVP & Managing Principal
-- 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, Elite Bags, American Red Cross 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
-- Western Regional Chamber of Commerce
-- U.S. Green Building Council
-- Phoenix Sister Cities
-- Global Ties
-- National Hispanic Contractors Association-AZ
-- Phoenix Sister Cities
Rob O’Brian is founder and principal of O’Brian and Associates, LLC, a consultancy in
economic, workforce and community development. Rob is dedicated to assisting
organizations that help their communities thrive including chambers of commerce,
economic development entities, local government, education, and not-for-profits. He
conducts workforce assessments, business park feasibility studies, economic and
community development planning and strategy development and facilitates
community and board training sessions. Rob has also been a disaster recovery contractor for the U.S. Economic Development Administration and the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Prior to founding the company in early 2018, O’Brian led Chambers of Commerce in economic development for more than thirty years. As President of the Joplin (MO) Area Chamber of Commerce for more than 20 years, Rob led development of a small business incubator and developed of one of the premier business parks in southwest Missouri. He also developed a seven county, three state regional economic development program to market the broader Joplin Region for new investment as well as programs to build a stronger regional workforce. As part of the marketing efforts, he and his team also participated in international trade events and corporate call programs.
In addition to the above, Rob worked with the City of Joplin and the community college to develop an advanced manufacturing skills training center. He was recognized as Workforce Partner of the Year by the Missouri Community College Association for that effort. He is also a founder and board member of the Joplin Regional Medical School Alliance, an organization that successfully brought a 600-student medical school to the community in 2017. The success of the project led to the development of a new dental school which opened in 2023.
Rob was president of the Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce when the community was hit by an EF-5 tornado in 2011; the most devastating and deadly tornado in U.S. in more than fifty years. The Chamber’s efforts to bring back more than 85% of the small businesses destroyed or damaged were recognized nationally by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Rob has spoken on disaster recovery and preparation to a number of groups from the local to the national level.
Rob is a Certified Economic Developer as designated by the International Economic Development Council. He is a graduate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Organizational Management (IOM). He is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Ball State University, Muncie, IN, with a BS in Telecommunications and minor in journalism. Rob is also a Strategic Doing Certified Workshop Leader.
SiteLink Forum Hotel will be at Holiday Inn & Suites Red Deer, South on Gasoline Alley at 33 Petrolia Drive, Red Deer, Alberta, T4E -1B3 Canada.
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