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Ken Stapleton and Associates

With over 30 years of urban revitalization and economic development experience, Ken provides urban economic development program strategy and project management services related to university-community partnerships, innovative urban safety programs, public health initiatives, urban mobility projects, urban place management, place branding, and urban redevelopment strategies to a variety of public and private clients throughout the United States and Canada.

Ken is also the President and CEO of the award-winning Safedesign^TM Institute, an organization providing innovative design services, communications strategies, training, program evaluation, and organizational development guidance related to real and perceived safety in urban environments.  He speaks regularly at national and international conferences about the topic

Washington Economics Group

WEG is a boutique economic consulting firm based in Coral Gables, FL. WEG has been successfully meeting client objectives since 1993 through economic consulting services for corporations, institutions and governments of the Americas. WEG has the expertise, high-level contacts, and business alliances to strengthen your competitive positioning in the growing marketplaces of Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our roster of satisfied clients, over the past 28 years, includes corporations, financial institutions, public entities, and non-profit associations expanding their operations in the Americas.

These premier and exclusive services are headed by Founder and Senior Advisor J. Antonio (Tony) Villamil, a nationally recognized economist, with over thirty-five years of successful career as a business economist, university educator and high-level policymaker for both federal and state governments.  Tony is a former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce with over thirty-five years of experience as a business executive and as a senior public official of the U.S. and most recently of Florida.