Sanders Picks Clint O’Neal to Lead AEDC | Arkansas Enterprise Information

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders introduced Thursday that she is going to title Clint O’Neal of Conway as the chief director of the Arkansas Financial Growth Fee, a division of the state Division of Commerce.  
 
“I’m able to unleash my imaginative and prescient to make Arkansas the perfect place within the nation to begin and develop a enterprise alongside Clint O’Neal, who will function Govt Director of the Arkansas Financial Growth Fee,” Sanders stated in a information launch. “His almost 20 years of expertise on this subject will likely be invaluable as we work along with Secretary Hugh McDonald to foster a pro-business, pro-worker surroundings, attracting firms throughout the nation — and world — to convey 1000’s of high-paying jobs to Arkansas.”

In a press release, O’Neal stated he’s excited to steer the group the place he began his financial growth profession greater than 15 years in the past.

“It’s a privilege to be entrusted to function Govt Director of AEDC at a time when Arkansas is gaining momentum and notoriety on the nationwide and worldwide stage,” he stated. “Arkansas has an excellent enterprise neighborhood and the instruments firms have to succeed.”

McDonald, the previous Entergy Arkansas CEO who Sanders selected final month to steer the Commerce Division, referred to as O’Neal “a pure match” to steer AEDC.

“Clint has a confirmed file of dependable management, and he has demonstrated that he is aware of what it takes to convey new capital funding into our state and win new jobs for Arkansans,” McDonald stated. “I’ve full confidence that AEDC will thrive beneath Clint’s management and, by extension, so will Arkansas.”

O’Neal has been deputy director of world enterprise at AEDC since 2018. He started his financial growth profession as a challenge supervisor at AEDC. He then served as vp of enterprise recruitment for the Missouri Partnership, Missouri’s enterprise recruitment and advertising and marketing group. There, he performed a job in attracting firms together with Nucor Corp., American Outside Manufacturers, CVS, Greenback Tree Distribution, Amazon, Blue Buffalo and U.S. Farathane, earlier than rejoining AEDC as deputy director.