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Step right up and claim your $10,000, remote workers. Northwest Arkansas is calling you.
That’s right, the Northwest Arkansas Council and other economic development councils like it in different areas across the U.S. are seizing upon the wave of newly remote workers to attract new talent and dollars to be put into the local economy without taking job opportunities away from existing residents.
Economic councils are trying to woo remote workers with incentives like cash, community events with other transplants, free flights, and in the case of the Northwest Arkansas Council, a bicycle. And it seems to be working.
Rentschler Biopharma SE, a global contract development and manufacturing organization for biopharmaceuticals, has appointed
Martin Kessler as CEO of Rentschler Biopharma Inc., the company’s wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, and as senior vice president transformation of Rentschler Biopharma SE.
Kessler brings more than 15 years of experience in pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical operations and strategy. At Rentschler Biopharma, he will drive the transformation throughout the company as it grows strategically into new fields and technologies. In his role as head of the U.S. business, he will lead the ongoing expansion at the company’s Greater Boston area site, which includes expanding capabilities, capacity and talent.
Newton recently appointed three newly elected members to its Board of Directors:
Annie Greene, Eric Boecher and
Gloria
Greene, a
Newton native, joins the Board of Directors after 10 years of involvement at the Y s residential camp, Camp Frank A. Day. She attended Frank A. Day as a camper and then spent four years as a counselor. In 2018, she spoke about her camp experience at the Y s A Night Under the Stars fundraising gala. She is a graduate of St. Lawrence University and is currently working as a nanny while attending nursing school. She is the daughter of the late Frederick Greene, who served on the Y s Board of Directors and is remembered as a tireless community advocate.