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Ed Meyer
Ed led the State of Utah's rural economic development efforts for twenty-one years. His experience includes
corporate recruiting, incentives, value-added agribusiness, community-based entrepreneurship, rural capital
formation, business clusters, rural tax policy, grantsmanship, youth entrepreneurship, economic development
strategic planning and heritage tourism.
Ed was instrumental in many of rural Utah initiatives that are now part of the fabric of Utah's rural economic
development environment. A few include the Utah Heritage Highway, the Utah Enterprise Zone Act, the Utah
Main Street Program, Utah Small Cities, Inc., the Governor's Rural Partnership Board, rural Utah's Small
Business Development Centers, Southern Utah University's annual Rural Summit and the 21st Century
Community Program. In 2003, President Bush recognized the Utah Smart Site Program, a rural technology
development initiative under Ed's direction, as the nation's most innovative economic development program.
Ed received an MPA from Brigham Young University and a fellowship from Harvard University's JFK School of
Government. He also served as City Manager and Planning Commission Chairman in Mt. Pleasant, Utah.
In addition to providing consulting as President of KE Kanab, Ed represents Southern Utah University in Kane
County as Associate Director of the SUU Business Resource Center and moderates a monthly entrepreneur
forum in Kanab.
Kathy Meyer
Kathy is retired and her involvement with KE Kanab is limited to serving as a sounding board for Ed's ideas
and lending moral support. However, she is so much a part of Ed's life that he wants you to know more about
her. Kathy retired in late 2005 after 30 years of service with the Utah State Office of Education where she
trained hundreds of counselors helping individuals with disabilities find meaningful employment. Kathy was
instrumental in helping Utah State University deliver Master's level counselor training to students throughout
the West using live web conferencing technologies. She won national recognition for her efforts to upgrade
the quality of counselling available to individuals with disabilities. Kathy also served as a district director
within her agency.Kathy received a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work and MPA from Utah State University. .
She was a social worker in North Carolina's tobacco fields for 5 years.
Ed led the State of Utah's rural economic development efforts for twenty-one years. His experience includes
corporate recruiting, incentives, value-added agribusiness, community-based entrepreneurship, rural capital
formation, business clusters, rural tax policy, grantsmanship, youth entrepreneurship, economic development
strategic planning and heritage tourism.
Ed was instrumental in many of rural Utah initiatives that are now part of the fabric of Utah's rural economic
development environment. A few include the Utah Heritage Highway, the Utah Enterprise Zone Act, the Utah
Main Street Program, Utah Small Cities, Inc., the Governor's Rural Partnership Board, rural Utah's Small
Business Development Centers, Southern Utah University's annual Rural Summit and the 21st Century
Community Program. In 2003, President Bush recognized the Utah Smart Site Program, a rural technology
development initiative under Ed's direction, as the nation's most innovative economic development program.
Ed received an MPA from Brigham Young University and a fellowship from Harvard University's JFK School of
Government. He also served as City Manager and Planning Commission Chairman in Mt. Pleasant, Utah.
In addition to providing consulting as President of KE Kanab, Ed represents Southern Utah University in Kane
County as Associate Director of the SUU Business Resource Center and moderates a monthly entrepreneur
forum in Kanab.
Kathy Meyer
Kathy is retired and her involvement with KE Kanab is limited to serving as a sounding board for Ed's ideas
and lending moral support. However, she is so much a part of Ed's life that he wants you to know more about
her. Kathy retired in late 2005 after 30 years of service with the Utah State Office of Education where she
trained hundreds of counselors helping individuals with disabilities find meaningful employment. Kathy was
instrumental in helping Utah State University deliver Master's level counselor training to students throughout
the West using live web conferencing technologies. She won national recognition for her efforts to upgrade
the quality of counselling available to individuals with disabilities. Kathy also served as a district director
within her agency.Kathy received a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work and MPA from Utah State University. .
She was a social worker in North Carolina's tobacco fields for 5 years.
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