Guild Member Profile
Past Chair
Jerry Szatan
Owner
Szatan & Associates
Chicago, IL
- Email: [email protected]
- Office: 312-440-9070
- Website: www.SzatanAssociates.com
Jerry Szatan has more than thirty years of experience in site selection, economic development, and real estate investing in the United States and abroad. He formed Szatan & Associates, a location strategy, site selection, and economic development consulting firm based in Chicago, in 1998.
He advises national, state, and local economic development organizations nationally on economic development strategy, marketing, real estate development feasibility, labor markets, and best practices. He was a senior manager at The Fantus Company, a regional economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and worked in real estate investment and public policy analysis.
His clients include: Organics LaGrange, Sun Microsystems, Union Pacific Railroad, Waste Management, and Wausau Insurance.
GEOGRAPHIC AREAS SERVED
| North America |
Industries
| Business Services and HQ | Advanced Manufacturing | R&D |
| Logistics, Warehouse and Distribution |
PAST CLIENTS
| Boar’s Head Brand | Carlson Wagonlit Travel | Davis Selected Advisors |
| Equiserve | First Card | GAF, Inc. |
| Hewitt Associates | Nature’s Path |
PERSONAL NOTE
Mr. Szatan writes and speaks widely about on-site selection issues and trends, labor market analysis, and regional economic development. He has written about: labor market evaluation, demographic trends, facility consolidation issues, rural site selection, intermodal freight development, green economic development, cultural institution building, and community image, and other topics. He has spoken before many states, regional, national, and international professional groups including the International Economic Development Council, Business Retention and Expansion International, National Association of Foreign Trade Zones, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and other business publications.
He has a B.A. and M.A. in economics from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago.