![]() JobsOhio offers assistance with state of Ohio programs. Companies are required to be in the growth, established or expansion stage and have generated revenues through a proven business plan. ■ Growth Fund Loan - It provides capital for expansion projects to companies that have limited access to capital and funding from conventional, private sources of financing. The program is available to public and private entities seeking to clean up and redevelop sites in Ohio. ■ Revitalization Program - A loan and grant program designed to help revitalize sites that translate into future job creation opportunities for Ohioans. ■ Economic Development Grant - The same goals but with funding for eligible projects in Ohio. ■ Workforce Grants - To promote economic development, business expansion and job creation by providing funding to improve worker skills and abilities in Ohio. JobsOhio awards these incentives to qualifying organizations: JobsOhio, a private, nonprofit economic development corporation, is a one-stop operation that helps businesses relocate, expand and prosper in Ohio. ■ When companies choose to expand their operation where they are or in another state, they’re looking for support in a number of ways. Griffith’s message to businesses is simple: “Getting the word out across the nation and around the world that Ohio is open for business in technology and is doing some cool things.” He has also been CEO of a South Korean company and was with Procter & Gamble in Emerging Markets Distribution and Sales Operations. Griffith spent 21 years with Hewlett-Packard and held various leadership positions in sales, channel marketing, supply chain and IT services in Europe and Asia, as well as California’s Silicon Valley. “Now why is that good? Why does that help with attracting IT into Ohio? Because it starts to build a stronger ecosystem when you have some of the major players here.” “We beat out the multiple state options IBM had, and they chose Ohio,” Griffith says. ![]() JobsOhio is active in assisting companies that are looking to locate or expand a business in Ohio. That doesn’t surprise Ted Griffith, managing director of information technology, distribution and logistics for the privatized economic development corporation JobsOhio, which had its first full year of operation in 2012. “Columbus, Ohio, couldn’t be a better place to build a center for analytics,” said Ron Lovell, vice president in charge of the center. IBM was impressed that within a 200-mile radius, there are more college graduates than in any area of the country other than Boston. When it recently opened its Client Center for Advanced Analytics in Columbus, IBM said the collection of talent around Columbus was the major reason the corporation picked the Central Ohio area to host its data analytics center. ![]()
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