Mark Lautman

Mr. Lautman Mark Lautman is the Director of Economic Development at Mesa del Sol, a planned community on Albuquerque's southeast mesa.
Prior to moving to Mesa del Sol, he was the founder of MetaMetrics.
Since becoming a professional economic developer twenty years ago, Mr. Lautman personally started and managed three business attraction programs: Grants NM, 1983-86, Rio Rancho NM, 1986-98 and Santa Teresa, NM 1998-04.
During this time he managed the design, development and marketing of 12 industrial parks totaling more than 3,600 acres.
So far his program teams have attracted more than 70 corporate locations to New Mexico accounting for more than 12,000 new jobs, 5 million square feet of industrial space, and more than $10 billion in new investment.
Mr. Lautman is an IEDC certified Economic Developer (CEcD), past member of the national board and past President of the NM Industrial Development Executives Association.
He has been a NM Economic Development Commissioner since 1999 and sits on the following boards: The Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance, Foreign Trade Association, NM Association of Commerce and Industry, NM Rural Payday, and the NM Association of Community Colleges.
He is on the Faculty of the University of Arizona BEDC and WNMU's BEDC's.