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Business alum Lisa McCabe named president of devleopment authority

(August 11, 2009)

By NEIL YOUNG/The Daily News

Sunday, August 9, 2009 12:51 AM CDT

BULLHEAD CITY - Lisa McCabe has been named president of the Bullhead Regional Economic Development Authority, Inc. (BREDA).

BREDA’s prime objective is to attract new businesses to the area and assist with the retention and expansion of existing businesses.

McCabe, who has resided in the Bullhead City area for 25 years, succeeds Tony Dias, who vacated the post in April.

McCabe, 49, has 25 years’ experience in the casino resort marketing and hospitality industry, most recently serving as vice president of marketing at the Aquarius Casino Resort. She held similar positions at the Flamingo Casino Hotel, Harrah’s Laughlin, Edgewater Hotel & Casino, Sam’s Town/Gold River and Del Webb’s Nevada Club; all in Laughlin.

McCabe majored in business administration with a minor in marketing at California State University in Northridge.

She currently serves as chairman of the Mohave County Airport Authority Board of Directors and chairman of the MCAA Air Service Development Committee. As a condition for her employment with BREDA, McCabe will be required to step down from the MCAA board.

“I’m really looking forward to diving into the job, working with the Board of Directors,” McCabe said, “and getting to know the needs of the businesses in the area as well as going after new businesses and getting them to move into the area.”

McCabe will bring “energy, motivation and ideas to BREDA,” said Bullhead City Mayor Jack Hakim. BREDA is partially funded by the city, and the mayor and council members Mark Clark and Jerry Duvall sit on the BREDA board of directors.

McCabe, who starts work Monday at an annual salary of $60,000, will be the third person to hold the position in 14 months. Dias was named president in July 2008, after Richard Adams resigned a month earlier. Adams had served as president since 2003.

Publication: Mohave Valley Daily News