Don Holbrook, CEcD
President & CEO
The Vercitas Group
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
Don Holbrook is a private practitioner involved in the
major elements of site location analysis for major
private sector investment projects. He specializes
in public backed inducements and incentives that
reduce the risk of new business investments.
He has
worked on over 100 projects representing over $1
billion dollars in capital investment generating more
than 50,000 jobs in his 18 years in the economic
development profession.
Don has specialized in creating customized incentive
policies to increase equity and reduce operational
costs to investors that create world class projects and
sustainable enterprises. He is considered a foremost
thought leader on what is referred to as Hybridized
Public Capital Investments for business attraction and
retention efforts.
Don’s approach is simple in deals there must be
equilibrium that makes both parties feel satisfactory
in their support for key business decisions to invest
capital. He negotiates agreements that establish
reasonable parameters for such investments to occur
and removes the governmental red-tape in order to
establish an acceptable deal between the public sectors
and private sectors.
He believes the process of developing world class
communities requires a paradigm shift in the mindset
of community leaders and is not determined by their
locales geographic location or population, but rather
by the quality and vision of their local leadership. He
advocates a seven step process to achieve such world
class community mindsets.
Don is a board of director for the International Economic Development Council, IEDC in Washington,
D.C. and serves on the CDC Small Business Board in
San Diego, California, an SBA 504 lender serving California,
Arizona, and Nevada.
Don enjoys international travel, scuba diving, reading
historical fiction, wine and spending quality time
with his family. He is a partner/vintner in the award
winning Red Zeppelin Winery in Paso Robles, California.
He resides in Lake Havasu City, Arizona with his
family.
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