Top of Virginia Regional Economic Summit 2022

Key Note Speaker:  

Tom Barkin is the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

Tom serves on the Fed's chief monetary policy body, the Federal Open Market Committee, and is also responsible for bank supervision and the Federal Reserve's technology organization. He is "on the ground" continually in the Fed's Fifth District, which covers South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, D.C., West Virginia, and Maryland. His engagement in the region has brought real attention to areas facing economic challenges. 

Before joining the Richmond Fed, Tom was a senior partner and CFO at McKinsey & Company, a worldwide management consulting firm. He oversaw McKinsey's offices in the southern United States.

Tom earned his bachelor's, MBA, and law degrees from Harvard University.
 

Featured Speaker:

Jason El Koubi,

President of the Virginia Dept of Economic Development

Jason El Koubi is the President and CEO of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership.

Experience

Before joining VEDP in July 2017 as Executive Vice President, El Koubi was previously President and CEO of One Acadiana, a regional economic development organization based in Lafayette, Louisiana. Under his leadership, the organization developed and successfully launched one of the most successful capital campaigns of its kind in the nation to deliver a new economic development program for the nine-parish region. Previously, El Koubi served as Assistant Secretary of Louisiana Economic Development, where he led initiatives that helped secure projects creating more than 63,000 new jobs along with more than $28 billion in new capital investment, while dramatically improving Louisiana's position in virtually every state business climate ranking.

Education

B.S., Biological Engineering Louisiana State University

M.S., Public Policy London School of Economics