A Jennings County native with over 26 years of industrial and economic development experience has been hired as executive director of Jackson County Industrial Development Corporation, Trevor Lane will begin his duties early next month.
He replaces Jim Plump who announced his retirement effective the end of September after 42 years at the helm of JCIDC.
For the past 21 years, Lane has been the Southern Region Attractions Director for the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) and for five years prior to that was the executive director of Jennings County Economic Development.
As the state’s southern region director, Lane negotiated more that 430 business attraction and expansion deals representing over $8.2 billion in new capital investment, over 36,000 new jobs and retention of more than 69,000 Indiana workers.
Among the large multi-national and small local companies Lane worked with to locate or expand in Indiana include Amazon, Autoeum, Batesville Tool & Die, Catamaran, Cummins, ENTEK, Fauresia, Honda, Ken’s Foods, Kings Hawaiian, Madison Precision Products, Mill Steel, Redwire Technologies, Sazarac of Indiana, Sun Right America, Toyota Material Handling ad TS Tech Indiana.
Specific to Jackson County through IEDC he managed attraction and expansion efforts resulting in over 1,700 new jobs and more than $635.5 million in investments for local companies including Aisin, Lannett, Cummins, Guardian Bikes, Valeo North America, Sims Bark, Space Guard, and Vital Farms.
He has established business relationships in international business centers such as Hannover in Germany and Nagoya and Tokyo in Japan as well as throughout the U.S.
Lane and his wife, Pamela, manage a 500-acre family cattle and grain farm in southeast Jennings County. They are the parents of three daughters, Lauren, Victoria and Emma and three grandchilden Coleson, Holdin & Alaina.
