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Delaware Prosperity Partnership has completed a strategic plan to support a more diverse tech talent pipeline in Delaware. Supporting is coming from JPMorgan Chase.
DPP partnered with 50 stakeholders representing Delaware businesses, nonprofits, education, and workforce development organizations to launch the statewide strategy.
In addition to a rigorous review of the labor market and hiring data, the research involved interviewing various populations.
Focus groups were conducted with employers and training providers who work with diverse and low-income populations, including those in the criminal justice system.
The public/private partnership will work to develop information technology talent.
March 1, 2021
Kurt Foreman
Kurt Foreman, president and CEO of Delaware Prosperity Partnership, has been recognized by Consultant Connect as one of North America’s Top 50 Economic Developers.
Of the 50 honorees selected from across North America, only five were from state-focused economic development organizations.
In April 2018, Foreman was selected to lead Delaware’s new public-private economic development partnership formalized by the General Assembly in August 2017.
The partnership was created after extensive review with stakeholders statewide on developing a new economic development strategy for Delaware. Its mission is to attract, grow and retain businesses, and build a stronger entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem while supporting private employers in identifying, recruiting and developing talent.
The Next Generation Of Financial Firms Is Making Delaware Its Home Barclays Delaware headquarters.
In the last four decades, Delaware has established itself as the financial capital of the mid-Atlantic. The state’s business-friendly banking and tax codes have inspired some of the biggest names in the financial world to move to Delaware in droves, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Barclays and Capital One.
Delaware has the highest relative concentration of financial services jobs of any state in the U.S. Jobs in the financial services sector make up 9% of all the jobs in the state, which is nearly twice the national average. Wilmington serves as the hub of this massive financial sector, with nearly 170,000 financial services workers across the metro labor market. Now, the state has become a hotbed for the next generation of financial firms: financial technology, or fintech, companies.