{"id":136489,"date":"2024-02-05T13:36:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T19:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=136489"},"modified":"2024-02-07T16:48:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T22:48:32","slug":"oxford-lafayette-economic-development-foiundation-set-to-hire-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-lafayette-economic-development-foiundation-set-to-hire-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford-Lafayette Economic Development Foundation Set to Hire CEO\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>Oxford Lafayette Economic Development Foundation (EDF) <\/strong>Board of directors\u00a0 is set to hire <strong>Ryan Miller<\/strong> as the new CEO of the organization. The economic development organization selected Miller after an extensive national search. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miller comes to the EDF from <strong>Accelerate Mississippi <\/strong>where he serves as executive director in Jackson. Miller was&nbsp; the founding director of the statewide workforce development office. Prior to Accelerate&nbsp;Mississippi, Miller was the associate director for external relations at the <strong>University of&nbsp; Mississippi Center for Manufacturing Excellence (CME)<\/strong> in <strong>Oxford<\/strong>. Miller is a graduate of the University of Mississippi and the University of Mississippi School of Law.&nbsp;\u2028&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have every confidence that Ryan can play a vital role in our community\u2019s economic growth. His background in workforce development, project management, and organization&nbsp;building is what we need to help grow jobs locally and find new industries for our&nbsp;community,\u201d said <strong>Brad Mayo<\/strong> the Chairman of the EDF Board.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miller said, \u201cI am so honored and excited to be able to serve in this capacity. There is no&nbsp; doubt that I love this community, and I am ready to get to work. Together, we will continue&nbsp;to celebrate what makes this place so special and focus our efforts on sustainable and&nbsp;targeted economic growth.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRyan has the background Lafayette County needs to continue our widespread economic&nbsp;growth. He gets it. He has experience developing a workforce for the jobs of the future and&nbsp; working with industry to bring jobs to Mississippi. I look forward to working with him to plan&nbsp;our community\u2019s future,\u201d said <strong>Brent Larson<\/strong>, the president of the <strong>Lafayette County Board of&nbsp; Supervisors<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>City of Oxford <strong>Mayor Robyn Tannehill<\/strong> believes Miller is the right fit. \u201cI don\u2019t believe there is&nbsp;a better fit for our community at this time than Ryan Miller. He knows our community; he&nbsp;knows economic development, and he has relationships that will allow him to hit the ground&nbsp;running. We are thrilled that Ryan has accepted the position and look forward to working&nbsp;with him and supporting his efforts.\u201d&nbsp;\u2028&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miller will be ratified at the Board\u2019s next scheduled meeting in February.&nbsp;\u2028&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Oxford-Lafayette County EDF was established to create opportunities for responsible&nbsp;economic development raising the income for all citizens of Lafayette County. It focuses in the areas of advocating for existing business and industry; recruiting industry; workforce training, and entrepreneurial development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ryan-Miller.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ryan-Miller.jpg?resize=250%2C261&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136490\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford Lafayette Economic Development Foundation (EDF) Board of directors\u00a0 is set to hire Ryan Miller as the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":136537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[27772,27774,4,27771,16294,27773],"class_list":["post-136489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-accelerate-mississippi","tag-brent-larson","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-lafayette-econimic-development-foundation","tag-ryan-miller","tag-university-of-mississippi-center-for-manufacturing-excellence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ryan-miller-EDF.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136710,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136489\/revisions\/136710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}