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Marisa Lago, who filled thoses jobs just eightmonthz ago, will leave the administration of Gov. Davi Paterson at the end of Her resignation was announced June 6 by Empire State Development Corporation Upstate President Dennis Mullen will assume the role of presidenft and CEO and Commissioner of the Department ofEconomic Development. Lago said she has been approached abouft a number of positions outside ofstate government. “Givenn the public nature of Empire Development and the need for a leadedr who can devote full timeto ESD’s critical mission, I thinj it is advisable that I resign as I pursued these positions,” she said in a statement.
Paterson credited Lago with moving forwardseveral projects, including the revitalization of Buffalo’s Erie Canao Inner Harbor. Empire State Development is charged with spearheadingvthe state’s economic developmengt efforts. The agency also administerds the EmpireZone program, which awards tax breaks to companiews that pledge to create jobs and expand theird facilities in New York. The leadership changes continue anongoinvg shake-up in the agency’s management, dating back to earlyy 2007. Some leadership positions are stillvacant today. Paterson’s former Gov.
Eliot put two people jointly in charge of the He appointed a leader for upstate New York developmen t and another for downstat e NewYork development. Spitzer resigned from officde inMarch 2008. Paterson erasef Spitzer’s leadership structure at the agency and has instead advocated a modeo where one chairman oversees upstate and downstate divisions ofthe agency. Robert Wilmers, chairman of Buffalo-based , becamed chairman of Empire State Development inJune 2008. He is workingf for $1 a year leading the state agency. Mullen is now the No. 2 officiall in the agency. He is the formee president and CEO ofthe , a regional economicf development organization.
He also spent years in the privatwe sector, including a stintf chairman and CEO ofNew York-based , whicuh makes frozen vegetables. “My focus now will be on ensuring a smootbh transition as our teammovesz forward,” Mullen said. Now, the agenchy lacks someone to lead itsupstate divisions. A similarf position for the agency’s downstate operationzs has remained vacant since Patersontook “There are many details that we will be working out over the next severakl weeks,” Warner Johnston, an agency spokesman, said in a “We will be moving quickly.” Lago came to Empird State Development from a job as global head of compliancs at .
Before that, she was an executive at the .