GREG J. BAGGERLY

Greg Baggerly is the founder and Managing Consultant of the Vista Consulting Group™ (VCG).  Greg's duties include all executive and administrative functions of the multi-disciplinary, marketing-related economic development consulting firm formed in May 1998.

Prior to forming VCG, Greg worked as Regional Economic Development Specialist for the Alamo Area Council of Governments.   Greg’s duties at the 12 county regional planning organization in San Antonio, Texas included  the planning and implementation of the "Defense Economic Conversion Program", which monitored the affect of the Kelly AFB closure on the AACOG region's rural counties.

Other past positions included working in the Community Development Department at the Village of Hoffman Estates, Illinois coordinating with Deloitte & Touche, the implementation of a village-wide economic development plan.  Greg also was the first Executive Director of the Economic Development Corporation of Park Ridge, Illinois.  Greg’s duties at the public / private corporation included the planning, implementation, and administration of economic development plans to retain and attract economic activity in Park Ridge.  Greg also served as Economic Development Specialist for The Greater Springfield (Illinois) Chamber of Commerce – Springfield / Sangamon County Economic Development Council, the county-wide economic development agency, where his duties included assisting with national business attraction efforts and researching specific demographic and statistical data.

Greg, a Springfield, Illinois native living in south central Texas since 1996, received a Bachelor of Science in Business degree, majoring in Marketing, from Eastern Illinois University and has completed the ‘Basic Economic Development Course’ at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  Greg is a past member of the Texas Economic Development Council, American Economic Development Council and Illinois Development Council.