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.

Barry Albrecht has served in economic development for over 28 years and has developed a reputation as an entrepreneur and industry leader in economic development and corporate real estate development, specializing in complex incentive design and transactions with national and international industries. As an economic development executive, he has directly been involved in the recruitment, relocating and expansion numerous tech-based industries and federal agencies which accounted for thousands of new high-tech and government related jobs. He previously has served as CEO of with multiple Texas, Arizona and Oklahoma based regional economic development corporations that also served large military and federal installations. He also worked 12 years with Hughes Aircraft as a business development executive and served 6 years in the Army as an aviator.

In 2019, Barry founded Strategic Locations Services LLC (SLS). SLS is a veteran owned full service economic development and corporate location advisory firm specializing in economic development consulting to communities and the defense industry.

SLS advisory services include site selection, expansions, facility searches, relocations, incentive negotiations that specializes in the defense industry in finding the optimum place to support existing or future contract awards.

Since 2019, SLS has completed 16 site selection projects with the defense and cyber security industry and has provided economic development services to dozens communities.
He continues to speak at national and state conferences on regional economic development and community marketing strategies. He has served on numerous national committees and has acted as congressional support to communities and local industries.​

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.

Gregory E. Elam (“Greg”) is the co-owner and Managing Partner of Blackfin Consulting, a firm
specializing in energy and utility consulting. For the past two years, he has served as the
Managing Director of SUSA International, which provided energy and utility consulting and
major asset disposition. Prior to SUSA, he was Chief Consultant to Lykins Energy Advisors
(“Lykins”) and was the founder of STEP Resources, an energy consulting and management
company, which he sold to Lykins in late 2015 after growing it from a start-up to managing more
than $200 million annually in energy spend for customers. He is also an Affiliated Consultant to
KMK Consulting Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of KMK Law firm. He has more than 30
years of experience as an executive and trusted consultant/advisor to his clients, including site
construction and developments, utility infrastructure and operations, large deal structuring,
strategic planning, and contract negotiations.

Greg has executed more than $2 billion in energy/utility related transactions and more than 10
million sf of real-estate development and site selection projects. He has developed and
implemented effective strategies for a variety of companies, including The Boeing Company,
Sprint and several Fortune 100 companies. He has more than 30 years of experience in the
energy/utility industry, where he has worked on executive leadership roles, business
development, electric trading/marketing and electric operations.

He is on retainer by the economic development arm of the state of Ohio (JobsOhio) to assist with
large energy/utility issues to attract companies to the state of Ohio. He is also currently involved
in large scale site selection for data centers, some of which are 1,000mW in size and include
large scale generation projects.

Greg served on the board of the European American Chamber of Commerce and was a member
of the Japan America Society of Greater Cincinnati. He is a past board president of The One-
Way Farm Children’s home. Greg attended Miami University and was accepted to the Farmer
School of Business. He and his family are strong supporters of the Dragonfly Foundation, which
he is a former board member.

Lynette is Chief Operating Officer with Invest Alberta Corporation (IAC)—an organization focused on attracting high impact, high value investment to Alberta. Beginning at IAC as VP, Investor Services, she now oversees all investor services and investment attraction activities, including domestic and international teams.

Prior to Invest Alberta, Lynette served as VP, Strategy & Innovation with Edmonton Global, helping attract foreign direct investment to the Edmonton Metropolitan Region. She has held senior roles in economic development, municipal and provincial governments and the private sector in BC, Ontario and Alberta over the past 13 years and has helped build and transform organizations by leading marketing, communications, policy and stakeholder relations efforts. Her breadth of experience across public, private and non-profit sectors has helped strengthen operations, create effective partner engagement, and promote Alberta as a destination of choice for global investors.

Lynette has also served on the board of the Edmonton Screen Industries Office and volunteers supporting women’s leadership initiatives.

William R. Parsons is the Principal at WRP, LLC, who oversees Credit & Incentive Practice data analysis team and primarily focuses on data driven site selection and complex tax/business incentive negotiations. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida with bachelor’s degrees in political science and international studies, and an associate degree in astronomy.

With nearly ten years of experience, William has worked on a diverse book of projects from agriculture to aerospace. Currently William is focused on assisting aerospace, defense, and manufacturing clients meeting their future growth requirements and environmental, sustainability, and governance (ESG) goals.

Outside the office, William is a well-rounded individual who enjoys ice hockey, shooting sports, photography, watercolor, and wine.  On weekends, he and his wife enjoy driving back country roads in search of scenic watering holes to enjoy live local music. While he will always be a Virginian at heart, where he was born and raised, he now calls Florida home after living there for over seventeen years.

As Executive Managing Director of Site Selection and Incentives, Susan specializes in securing real estate locations for clients globally, focusing on a proprietary Total Cost Analysis model that identifies all labor costs, fulfillment/distribution transportation costs, incentive opportunities, and real estate costs. She focuses on finding locations that reduce attrition, increase productivity, improve quality of service, and allow clients to remain competitive by finding a labor force that meets
their unique needs.

A recognized author and frequent speaker on the skills required for site selection, incentive negotiations, and tenant representation, Susan is often featured in publications such as D CEO, D Magazine, and Bisnow.