Partners for Economic Development

A-B Tech combines and often leads economic development efforts through partnerships to deliver comprehensive assistance for locating new business and industry to our area and to foster business growth.

• AdvantageWest
   
• Asheville Chamber of Commerce 
   
• Land of Sky Regional Council
   
• Minority Business Program
• Manufacturers Executive Association
                   

Please click on the links to visit our partners' web sites.  For more information on how the Corporate and Economic Development efforts of A-B Tech, together with our community partners, can help your company relocate to our area, expand, or strengthen your economic position in our market, contact Ken O'Connor.

Ken O'Connor Executive Director, Workforce Development/NEIT A-B Tech Enka Campus 340 Victoria Road Asheville NC 28801 koconnor@abtech.edu (828) 254-1921 Ext. 5823

Partners for Professional Development

	American Society for Quality Asheville Chapter
	Society of Women Engineers Proposed Greater Asheville Section

We solicit contacts from organizations interested in partnering with A-B Tech for professional development and professional certifications.  For more information on how we can help your organization with professional certifications and professional development, contact Ken O'Connor.

Our Economic Development Partners
are organizations who provide support for and with A-B Tech's Corporate and Economic Development efforts to assist Western North Carolina companies to grow and prosper.  They also provide site selection and start-up assistance  to business and industry  relocating to NC from other states.

Our Professional Development Partners
are organizations who join our Corporate and Economic Development efforts to deliver professional development courses and professional certification courses for business and industry we jointly serve.