Friday, February 25, 2022

Whitaker leaving LINK for VP post

After 11 years with Golden Triangle Development LINK, Macaulay Whitaker is leaving for new opportunities as Vice President of Talent and Culture at Burns Dirt Construction. In her decade tenure at LINK and the Chamber, she was an "absolute key" of creating 4,350 jobs, securing $2.1B in investments and a player in developing plans that funded Communiversity,” said Joe Max Higgins, CEO of the GTR LINK. Among her notable projects include the formation of the 3-county Golden Triangle Development LINK, the region’s ACT WorkReady certification, Communiversity and the NorthStar Industrial Park. LINK is an economic development agency that represents Clay, Lowndes and Oktibbeha counties. (Source: WCBI 02/24/22) Burns Dirt Construction is a heavy construction, demolition, earthwork, construction management, storm drainage, and commercial construction firm based in Columbus, Miss., and does work both Mississippi and Alabama.

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