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Wes Jurey CEO Redemption Bridge (Texas) We’re honored to feature Wes Jurey, CEO of Redemption Bridge and workforce visionary, on the iBuild America Podcast.From shaping national workforce policy to pioneering education-to-employment models, Wes shares powerful insights on innovation, partnerships, and purpose in workforce development.Redemption Bridge, a non-profit intermediary, focused on establishing new models for workforce development. He is also the Founder, President and CEO of the Agriculture Technology Innovation Partnership (ATIP) Foundation, affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture; Senior Advisor to the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council. He is the former CEO of the El Paso (TX) Chamber of Commerce and former CEO of the Arlington (TX) Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Jurey established the Center for Continuing Education and Workforce Development in 2004, selected as one of 12 sites nationally for the Workforce Innovation Networks Initiative, a project of the Ford Foundation and U.S. Department of Labor. Built in partnership with the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), the City of Arlington, and the Tarrant County Workforce Investment Board, the facility fostered partnerships with virtually every major education and workforce development stakeholder in Tarrant County. He was appointed to the 9-member U.S. Department of Labor panel in 2002, charged with development of the departments five-year strategic research plan; Labor Secretary Elaine Chao appointed him to the Department of Labor’s Advisory Committee on Apprenticeships in 2008, and he was reappointed by Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis in May 2010. In 2009, he was selected as a Ford Foundation Fellow, and was appointed by the Business Roundtable as one of 25 commissioners for the Springboard Project, an independent commission that developed education & workforce policy recommendations for the Obama Administration. In 2010 he was appointed to the Council on Competitiveness’ Workforce Advisory Group.LinkedIn Profile: Wes Jureyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/wes-jurey-89a22922bWebsite: SDEP https://www.southdallasemploymentproject.org/leadership