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Article: N.Y. Gov. Paterson Picks New Executive Director for ESDC.(News)
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- The Bond Buyer
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- September 30, 2009
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Byline: Ted Phillips
The reorganization of New York's economic development agency continued yesterday with the appointment of a new executive director. Gov. David Paterson announced that Peter Davidson, chairman of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a philanthropic organization, would fill the newly created post.
Last year Paterson reunified the Empire State Development Corp.'s leadership, which had been divided between upstate and downstate chairmen.
A new structure - which had a chairman to oversee larger strategy goals and a combined president and chief executive officer to oversee more day-to-day operations - was scrapped in June when the governor ...