Primary Job Title President and CEO Primary Organization 
Ann Arbor SPARK
Location Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Regions Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
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Paul Krutko is Ann Arbor SPARK’s president and CEO. In this role, he leads the organization’s efforts to expand the regional economy through business attraction, retention and initiatives to support entrepreneurs and early stage companies accelerating their growth to full potential to benefit the region.
Paul has more than 31 years of economic
and business development expertise. Before joining Ann Arbor SPARK, he led San Jose, California's economic development efforts, where he served as chief development officer. He has also worked in economic development for the cities of Cleveland and Jacksonville. In addition to his economic development leadership for San Jose and other cities, Paul founded Peloton Development, a consultancy devoted to advising businesses and municipal, regional, state and national governments on economic development and climate prosperity strategies and on creating high performing economic development leaders and teams.
He earned a Bachelor of Urban Planning and Design degree from the University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture and Art. In addition to his responsibilities as SPARK CEO, Paul Krutko is honored to serve as chair of the preeminent professional economic development organization in the world, the International Economic Development Council (IEDC). Leadership of IEDC will have a huge payoff for Ann Arbor, June 9 -11, when hundreds of economic development professionals will be coming to Ann Arbor for the organization's Spring Conference - "Leveraging Unique Regional Assets to Compete Globally: Spurring Job Creation though Cluster Development and Transformation
