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Jim Aanstoos is the new economic development director for the city of San Marcos, Texas.

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John Adams, director of the Laredo Development Foundation, will become the new director of Enterprise Florida.

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Steve Biggers has been promoted to Deputy Director for the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science & Technology.

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Warren Erdman, formerly vice president of corporate affairs at Kansas City Southern, is the newly selected chairman of the board of the Economic Development Corp. of Kansas City.

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Michael Finney, CEO of Greater Rochester Enterprise, is leaving to become president and CEO of Ann Arbor SPARK.

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Dennis "Mickey" Flynn is the new president of Pennsylvania BIO.

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The West Virginia Venture Connection has named John Hale as executive director.

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Kevin Holmes returned to his alma mater, Santa Clara University, to join the Leavey School of Business as executive director of its Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE).

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Bruce Kidd is the first director of entrepreneurship for the Indiana Economic Development Corp.

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Angela Kreps is the first president of the year-old Kansas Bioscience Organization.

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Cliff Long is the first full-time economic development director for Nampa, Idaho. Long had worked for the Idaho Department of Commerce for the past 14 years.

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Christopher Price is the executive director for the Piedmont Triad Research Park and senior vice president, Wake Forest University Health Sciences.