Wednesday, August 09, 2000
N.Ky. losing top business recruiter
By Patrick Crowley
The Cincinnati Enquirer
FORT MITCHELL — One of Northern Kentucky's top economic development officials is leaving the region to take a job in Georgia.
Bryan Quinsey, 45, is leaving the Tri-County Economic Development Corp. (Tri-ED) — Northern Kentucky's job and business recruitment agency — to take the job of executive director of the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce in Georgia.
Mr. Quinsey, a vice president with Tri-ED, begins work at his new post Sept. 15. He was recruited for the job by Jim West, Tri-ED's former and first president who now heads the Augusta, Ga., Metro Chamber, which oversees the county chamber of commerce in that area.
“Jim has been trying to get me down there for the last two years, but I (always) said no,” Mr. Quinsey said Tuesday. “But this job opened, and my primary responsibility will be economic development, so the time seemed right.”
“I hired Bryan once before and have been looking for someone like him to round out the team in Augusta,” Mr. West said. “Bryan has a tremendous amount of on-the-job experience and expertise in economic development ... but the real selling point for Bryan Quinsey is in the high level of energy that he brings to every project he touches.”
Mr. Quinsey has been involved in some of the largest projects Tri-ED has helped recruit to the area, including Lafarge Gypsum, the $100 million drywall plant that opened last month in Silver Grove.
Other companies he helped bring to Northern Kentucky include The National Underwriter Co., Omnicare, Redken Laboratories, Toyota Motor Sales and Zotefoams.
Tri-ED President Danny Fore called Mr. Quinsey “a huge asset for Northern Kentucky.”
“Bryan has done the yeoman's work for this organization,” Mr. Fore said. “He is the type of person who is relentless.”
A native of Ontario, Canada, Mr. Quinsey worked four years for Tri-ED. Prior to that he spent five years with the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.
“It's been an awesome experience working and living in Northern Kentucky,” he said. “The opportunity to work with so many companies that have had such an impact on this area is phenomenal. I'll always be happy knowing that in the future people will be getting jobs as the result of some of the work I was able to do here.”
Though his new office is just 3 miles from the Augusta National Golf Course, home to professional golf's Masters Tournament, Mr. Quinsey doesn't expect to spend much time there.
“I'm not a golfer,” he laughed.
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