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Megan Zimmerman

CEO

Calgary, Alberta, Canada17 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 17 years in marketing and business development.
  • Expert in stakeholder relations and investment attraction.
  • Recognized in Avenue's Top 40 Under 40.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Business Development and Marketing expert in the Economic Development sector.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business DevelopmentStakeholder RelationsCommunications

Other Skills

Investment attractionProgram developmentCreative storytellingPartnership developmentEvent managementProject managementMedia relationsMarketingCreative WritingProject FacilitationProject Portfolio ManagementSocial Media MarketingStrategic PlanningWebsite ManagementClient Relationship Building

About

I help global companies learn about and take advantage of the tremendous business opportunities in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. For the past 17 years, my career experience has spanned roles in marketing and communications and business development. Specialties: People and relationships. Business development, sales, investment attraction, place marketing, corporate communications, internal communications. media and social media relations, corporate brand management, project management, government relations, corporate writing, stakeholder relations, internal and external communications. I am a great writer.

Experience

17 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Calgary economic development

6 roles

Vice President, Trade & Investor Experience

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Vice President, Trade & Investor Experience

Promoted

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Senior Director Business Development

Promoted

Feb 2023Jan 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

Director, Business Development

Promoted

Sep 2019Feb 2023 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Business Development Manager, Energy, Green Economy & Technology

Dec 2014Sep 2019 · 4 yrs 9 mos

  • Business development activities including developing business/investment and workforce attraction programs, host and develop programming for incoming and outgoing trade/ investment missions, present and facilitate at events and workshops, lead creative storytelling efforts focused on sector activity, act as city representative at international investment forums, act as connector/catalyst between B2B, B2G, and business to investor, serve on sector related advisory boards, identify and develop strategic partnerships with community groups, government, local businesses and key ecosystem organizations to advance shared prosperity
Business developmentInvestment attractionProgram developmentStakeholder relationsCreative storytellingPartnership development

Manager, Marketing and Communications

Jul 2007Jan 2014 · 6 yrs 6 mos

  • Communications, Stakeholder relations, Project management, Media and social media relations, Marketing, Events, Digital
CommunicationsStakeholder relationsProject managementMedia relationsMarketing

International visitor leadership program (ivlp)

#ExchangeAlumni

Jan 2020Feb 2020 · 1 mo · United States

  • One of 50 Canadians/year who are nominated to participate in this program. Program cities included: Washington D.C., Boston, Austin, Sacramento and Chicago.
  • The International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) is the U.S. Department of State’s premier professional exchange program. Through short-term visits to the United States, current and emerging foreign leaders in a variety of fields experience this country firsthand and cultivate lasting relationships with their American counterparts. Professional meetings reflect the participants’ professional interests and support the foreign policy goals of the United States.
  • Each year nearly 5,000 International Visitors come to the U.S. on the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). More than 200,000 International Visitors have engaged with Americans through the IVLP, including more than 500 current or former Chiefs of State or Heads of Government.

The natural step

Energy Futures Lab fellow

Nov 2015Oct 2021 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Greater Calgary Metropolitan Area

  • The Energy Futures Lab is an Alberta-based coalition of innovators and leading organizations working together to accelerate the transition to an energy system that is fit for the future.
  • It was created in 2015 as a response to the harmful polarization on energy issues. With an orientation towards leveraging today’s strengths to create the energy system that the future requires, the EFL has attracted a wide diversity of perspectives and participants, including oil and gas, clean tech, environmental groups, Indigenous leaders, utilities, finance, etc. The Energy Futures Lab now supports a group of 20 partner organizations and 72 Fellows from across Alberta’s energy system to find common ground and take action together on collaborative projects that advance solutions for Canada’s energy future.

Timeraiser

Committee member/ media lead

Jan 2012Jan 2016 · 4 yrs · Greater Calgary Metropolitan Area

  • I spent four years on the Calgary Timeraise committee. This event gave citizens the most engaging and impactful civic engagement experience by:
  • 1. Promoting civic engagement amongst Canadians in the early stages of their careers
  • 2. Helping volunteer agencies find the skilled people their organizations need
  • 3 Improving the experience of bringing people to causes and causes to people
  • 4. Supporting the careers or young artists in our community.
  • www.timeraiser.ca

Vanoc

Press assistant

Feb 2010Feb 2010 · 0 mo

  • Coordinate and assist in the general operation of the Venue Media Centre at the Alpine venue of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

Alpine canada alpin

PR & Media Coordinator

Oct 2004May 2006 · 1 yr 7 mos

Education

University of Calgary

BA

Mount Royal University

Publishing Certificate — Desktop Publishing

Mount Royal University

Applied Communications Diploma — Communciations

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