Mohr Partners, Inc., an international corporate real estate advisor, has appointed James Robey, Ph.D. as Managing Director in its Cleveland, Ohio office, joining Dennis Burnside, Managing Partner, and Bob Redmond, Managing Director.

Dr. Robey brings 25 years of experience providing economic development research, market research and analysis to large and small corporate organizations, Chambers of Commerce, state and local government economic development organizations and non-profit EDC's. His expertise in both economic development and urban studies enables him to deliver a superior level of service to his clients.

Most recently, Dr. Robey served as Vice President of Research with Team NEO, where he was responsible for developing and implementing strategies for the retention, expansion and attraction of key industries by analyzing the Northeast Ohio region's economic structure, including business and occupation trends.

Dr. Robey was director of Economic Research at the Greater Cleveland Growth Association for more than seven years before joining Team NEO. In that capacity, he oversaw the process of setting and collecting the organization's key performance measures, conducted economic impact studies of the organization's activities and established new perspectives on the supply and demand for IT and Biomedical workers in the region.

Previously, he was part of the Economic Development team at Cleveland State University's Economic Development Program with the Levin College of Urban Affairs. He served as the project manager for the Ohio Economic Development Database Project.

"I've known and worked with Jim very many years and I couldn't be more pleased that he is bringing his impressive resume and extensive background in the economic development community to our firm," said Dennis Burnside, Managing Partner of the Cleveland office. "We plan on leveraging Jim's expertise to provide high level research and advisory consulting to both our economic development and real estate advisory / site selection clients throughout North America. We believe that the combination of our economic development and real estate advisory expertise is compelling and differentiates Mohr Partners from other service providers."

"We are assembling a very talented team of real estate and economic development professionals in our Cleveland office, and we look forward to providing them with all the support they need to deliver the best possible service to our clients," said Ted Fredericks, President of Mohr Partners. "We are building one of the top EDC consulting firms in the country and our team in Cleveland is a key component of our knowledge base and expertise."

"I am excited to be joining Mohr Partners and working with Dennis in servicing Economic Development clients," said Robey. "Dennis Burnside together with Mohr's research department are putting together one of the top EDC consulting services groups in the country, and I look forward to adding my expertise to the Mohr team."