North Port EDC names new chief

NORTH PORT — Jean Harris, previously an official with Florida International University, has been named executive director of the North Port Economic Development Corp., a nonprofit private organization.

Harris, according to a release, worked for Florida International University in Miami for the past nine years. Her most recent position was associate director of operations at the Kovens Conference Center. Harris worked at Endicott College in Beverly, Mass. before FIU.

“We are excited about Jean joining our team,” North Port Economic Development Corp. Chairman Robert Rosenberg says in the release. “Jean's strengths include extensive business development skills, analytical and assessment skills, strategic thinking and planning, relationship building and teamwork, and is a very results oriented individual.”