Jerry Szatan has more than thirty years experience in site selection, economic development and real estate investing in the United States and abroad. He formed Szatan & Associates, a location strategy, site selection and economic development consulting firm based in Chicago in 1998. Site selection projects include headquarters, R&D, manufacturing, distribution, call centers, back offices, and other corporate facilities for domestic and international companies including: Boar's Head Brand, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Davis Selected Advisors, Equiserve, Nature's Path, Organics LaGrange, Sun Microsystems, Union Pacific Railroad, Waste Management and Wausau Insurance

He advises economic development organizations nationally on development strategy, marketing, real estate development, labor markets and best practices. He was a senior manager at The Fantus Company, a regional economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and worked in real estate investment and public policy analysis.

Mr. Szatan writes and speaks widely on site selection and economic development topics, including: labor market evaluation, demographic trends, facility consolidation issues, rural site selection, intermodal freight development, green economic development and cultural institution building. He has spoken before many state, national and international professional groups including the International Economic Development Council, Business Retention and Expansion International, National Association of Foreign Trade Zones and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and other business publications. He has an M.A. in regional economics from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago.