Sec. Stephen Moret named President & CEO of LSU Foundation

An alumnus of both LSU (mechanical engineering) & Harvard (MBA) where he served as student body president at both LSU & Harvard.

The LSU Foundation will greatly improve under his leadership. The new HQ held their ceremonial ground breaking a few weeks ago,btw.






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Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Stephen Moret will take over as president and CEO of the LSU Foundation in May. The foundation announced his selection earlier today, capping a months-long national search to fill the position. Moret will oversee fundraising and philanthropic activities for all campuses in the LSU system.

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Moret comes to the position after seven years at LED, where he is widely credited with attracting more than $62 billion in investment and about 91,000 new jobs to the state. In a statement, Gov. Bobby Jindal, who appointed Moret to LED in January 2008, credits him with helping to transform LED into one of the nation’s most respected state economic development agencies.

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Examples of LED’s wins under Moret’s leadership include landing major software/IT centers of IBM, CSC, GE Capital and CGI; recruiting Bell Helicopter’s Jet Ranger X manufacturing facility; attracting Benteler’s steel/pipe mill; and securing ConAgra’s sweet potato processing facility, which leverages research developed at the LSU AgCenter.

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