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Susan Campbell
Susan Campbell works for the City of Bowie as economic development coordinator. In this position, she provides staff support for the Bowie Economic Development Corporation and Bowie’s Main Street Project. Susan’s career encompasses 27 years experience in downtown management, communications, historic preservation and economic development. Prior to her tenure with the City of Bowie, she worked for downtown organizations in Fort Worth and Wichita Falls, the City of McKinney’s Main Street program, the Texas Main Street Center, and a regional planning commission in southwest Georgia. Susan spent most of her school years in Georgetown, Texas, and graduated from Wichita Falls High School. She holds a B.A. degree in history from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, and graduate level course work in historic preservation from Middle Tennessee State University. She has served on Texas Main Street Resource Teams for Brenham, Taylor, Llano and LaPorte, as well as a Texas Rural Development Council Resource Team for Electra. Susan also enjoys facilitating board training and strategic planning sessions for non-profit organizations. Some of the organizations she has assisted in this way include the Main Street programs in Weatherford, Rusk, Cedar Hill, Bridgeport, and Durant, OK. Susan’s current professional activities include membership in the Texas Economic Development Council and service on the boards of the Texas Downtown Association, Red River Valley Tourism Association, and North Texas Workforce Solutions. She is a member of the Bowie Kiwanis Club, the Bowie ISD District Improvement Team, and the Montague County Foundation for North Central Texas College. She is also active in the First United Methodist Church, where she sings in the choir and teaches Sunday school.
   
Jed Elrod
Jed Elrod has served 5 years as Pecos County's Ag & Natural Resources Agent dealing with myriad responsibilities for agriculture and community development. Prior to his involvement with Pecos County, he worked more than 13 years as a Specialist for the New Mexico Department of Agriculture (NMDA) dealing with wildlife and range resource policy analysis and conflict arbitration. Mr. Elrod has also worked with Tide Products, Inc, the Texas Department of Transportation, USDA Soil Conservation Service, the USDI Bureau of Land Management Young Adult Conservation Corps, and Farm Credit System. Mr. Elrod graduated from Texas A&M University in 1973, and received his Masters degree in Range Animal Science in 1975.
   
   
Louri O'Leary

Ms. O'Leary earned a Bachelors Degree (B.A.) at the University of Texas at Arlington and earned a Masters of Education Administration (M.Ed.) with a Mid Management certification from Texas State
University. Previous career opportunities include teaching in both public and private schools; Office of the Governor, Bush Administration, in the General Counsel division; MGT of America, Inc as a Senior Analyst; Texas Federation of Republican Women, Executive Director; Texas Association of REALTORS(r), in both the Governmental and Political Affairs sections; and Office of the Governor, Perry Administration, as the Juvenile Justice Specialist Grant Program Administrator. Ms. O'Leary has worked for Governor Perry since 2001. Ms. O'Leary transferred into the Economic Development & Tourism division and for two years Louri was the Travel Research Coordinator working with Travel Research Manager Stan Hodge. In her coordinator role Louri produced 11 Tourism Assessment reports, contributed annually to the five state agency MOU Tourism Strategic Plan, assisted industry partners and agencies with local, regional and state data, and maintained the research section of the website, www.travel.state.tx.us. In the summer of 2005, Ms. O'Leary transferred to the Tourism Marketing position, assisting with tourism advertising and public relations projects; attending trade shows and sales missions; working with Convention and Visitor Bureau staff; and assisting on projects with our Public Relations and Advertising firms. Ms. O'Leary was promoted to Tourism Research Manager in the summer of 2006.
   
Robert Worley

Robert Worley is the President and CEO of the Economic Development Alliance for Brazoria County. Throughout his career of helping communities reach their economic development goals, he has received a number awards; the most recent award was in 2005 when the Texas Economic Development Council named Dumas EDC as one of the best small city economic development programs in Texas. Before he was apart of the Dumas EDC, he worked in Bryan and College Station, where his programs were awarded as the best metro area economic development program in 1998 and 2000, by the Texas Economic Development Council's Community Economic Development. Other honors include being named as one of the nations' top eight economic developers in metro areas by Johnson & Associates in 2001, and in 1998, Worley was cited by Southern Business & Development Magazine as the top small market economic developer in the 16 Southern States. Communities Worley has worked with include Dumas, Tx, Bryan/ College Station, Tx, Glen Falls, NY, McKinney, Tx, Mt. Pleasant, Tx, Paducah, Tx, and Brazoria County's 24 cities
   
Jose M. Quintana

Mr. Quintana has a wealth of startup experience. As a lifelong entrepreneur, he has started several successful companies and has acted as consultant to many of the world's top corporations including Nokia, Sprint, Qualcomm, Frito-Lay, Schering-Plough, Disney, Lockheed, Sun Microsystems, Verizon and Novartis International. He is an active board member of Global Knowledge Group, PowerKids, The Texas Lyceum Association, Westcar Consulting Group, and The Research Valley Technology Alliance (RVTA).

Mr. Quintana has developed business development strategies and technology solutions for the tourism industry for the last 10 years, placing particular emphasis on rural tourism development strategies leveraging web-based solutions for an increasingly online savvy traveling public.

Mr. Quintana devised ASD, the tourism strategy development toolset that is rapidly becoming recognized as the ideal methodology for establishing economic, community and tourism development strategies for regional growth and prosperity. In addition to strategy development, Mr. Quintana has applied his considerable software and computing expertise to the development of software tools for the tourism industry, including Vestivo, the premier reservation and property management software for the RV industry, custom solutions for management of special events, and the advertising tracking database and management system for the State of Texas, among others.