Jonathan Scott

Jonathan Scott has been with the Temple (TX) Economic Development Corporation since August, 2006. He serves the corporation as the Director of Business Development and is responsible for the management of proposal development and the recruitment of new businesses to Temple. Scott is an integral member of the team that successfully recruited Gulf States Toyota and Panda Energy to Temple in late 2007.

These two projects will represent an investment in excess of $700 million and the creation of more than 500 new jobs when the facilities are completed. Scott has been an economic development professional for 14 years.

He started his career in 1994 as an intern with the Minot State University - Business and Community Assistance Center. He was hired by the Mountrail County Job Development Authority in 1995 and served as the Economic Development Director for Mountrail County until 2000. Scott's major successes in this position included the creation of the Mountrail County Investment Fund, construction of the Parshall Parkside Apartments, development of West Dakota Feed and Seed, and the successful initiation of a large-scale dairy and wind energy project.

Scott's next professional move was to Mecosta County, Michigan, where he served as the Executive Director of the Mecosta County Economic Development Corporation. Scott served 27 rural manufacturers and facilitated $20 million worth of private sector expansion for 11 of these companies. He was also successful in recruiting two new manufacturers which invested an additional $185 million into this rural economy. While in Mecosta County, Scott was the President of the Comprehensive Planning Board of the West Michigan Regional Planning Commission and the President of the Growth Finance Corporation, an SBA 504 lender.

Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Minot State University (1995) and an MBA from Ferris State University (2006). He is also a certified Economic Development Finance Professional (2000).