2025 Instructors
Instructors for 2026 are still being confirmed, but most return each year!
REP Patty Lundstrom
CEcD
New Mexico House of Representatives, District 9 - Executive Director, Greater Gallup Economic Development Corporation
Noreen Scott
CEcD, FM, HLM
Managing Member, New Mexico Economic Catalyst Foundation
Eric Canada
CEO, Blane, Canada Ltd.
Danielle Casey
CEcD, EDFP
President at Albuquerque Regional Economic Alliance (AREA)
Mark Lautman
CEcD, FM, HLM
Principal, Lautman Economic Architecture, LLC
Deborah Burns
CEO, investUS
Managing Partner, InvestUS Opportunity Fund
Jerry Pacheco
Executive Director, International Business Accelerator
Jerry Schalow
President / CEO, Rio Rancho Regional Chamber Of Commerce
Patrick Vanderpool
CEcD, FM EDFP
Executive Director, Greater Tucumcari Economic Development Corporation
Mark Barbash
Founder and Director, Ohio Economic Development Institute
Kirstin Keller
Executive Director, Middle Rio Grande Economic Development Assoc.
Johanna Nelson
CEcD
Director, Office of Economic Development, City of Santa Fe
Miguel Vicéns
Associate Professor of Finance, Western New Mexico University
Antoinette Vigil
Deputy Cabinet Secretary - NM Tourism Department
Deborah Breitfeld
CEcD
Economic Development Coordinator, Regional Development Corporation
Jim Smith
CCIM, SIOR
First Vice President, CBRE
Bruce Armstrong
CEcD
Economic Development Manager, Greater Gallup Economic Development Corporation
Tim Gibbs
Four Corners Economic Development Corp.
Cassie Arias Ward
CEcD
Economic Development Director, City of Deming
Michael Sage
CEcD
Assistant Commissioner of Commercial Resources
Lansing Adams
Cabinet Secretary of the New Mexico Tourism Department
Drew Kramer
Economic Development Program Manager at Tri-State Generation & Transmission
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