Jenée Velasquez

Jenée began as the first executive director for The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation in October of 2005. She served as CEO of Midland County’s economic development corporation, Midland Tomorrow, beginning in 1999. For two years prior to that, she served as Midland Tomorrow’s manager of economic development services. She was Midland’s first Downtown Development Authority coordinator. Prior to living in Midland, Jenee worked for the Manhattan, Kansas Convention and Visitors Bureau. She earned a B.S. in business administration from Kansas State University and her M.B.A. from Michigan State University as well as completing an executive education course at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She serves as chair of the Membership Committee, a member of the Government Relations Public Policy Committee and the Statewide Equity Fund Strategic Support Working Group.