Jeff Marcell - Executive Vice President & COO

Jeff Marcell is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of enterpriseSeattle (formerly the Economic Development Council of Seattle and King County). He is responsible for the day to day management of activities and personnel, relating to the organization’s mission of business and job creation, retention, expansion, and recruitment in King County through client based economic development work.

Jeff joined enterpriseSeattle in July of 2004 and since that time he has rebuilt the organization’s client based economic development program, leading a new team of business development professionals targeted on five industry clusters: aerospace, IT, life science, clean technology and international trade/logistics. Over the last six years this new team has worked to assist 45 companies that have created or retained close to 4,500 primary jobs in the community with an estimated economic impact to the local economy of close to 8,800 total jobs with over $1.45 billion in new economic activity.

Jeff joins enterpriseSeattle from Austin, Texas where he was a Project Manager with Angelou Economics. Angelou Economics is the country’s largest economic development consulting firm. They specialize in developing business retention and recruitment initiatives for communities and providing site selection consultation for companies such as Dell, Intel, Oracle, Toyota, and CITGO. Jeff worked with cities, counties and regions around the country teaching them how to attract industry and build effective economic development organizations.

Prior to being recruited by Angelou Economics, Jeff was a marketing executive in the Economic Development Division of the Greater Houston Partnership, the largest business advocacy organization in the Houston region. He was responsible for retaining and recruiting corporate expansions and relocations by marketing and promoting the Houston region nationally and internationally. During his term with the Partnership, the organization brought in over 25,000 jobs to the Houston region with 3.4 billion dollars in annual economic impact to the community.

In 2007 Jeff was named as one of the Puget Sound Business Journal’s Forty Under Forty. He is a Board Member of the Washington Economic Development Association. Additionally he is a member of the Curriculum Committee of Leadership Tomorrow.

Jeff holds a doctorate of jurisprudence from South Texas College of Law and Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.