CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER OF THE UPSTATE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION - KEN SCHOETZ

Ken Schoetz is the Chief Operating Officer of the Upstate Development Corporation.   Mr. Schoetz has served in numerous senior positions in public service and as an attorney in private practice.  He is a life-long resident of Western New York, and has government experience at both the state and local level, including serving for the last four years as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Buffalo Regional Office.  While in that position he was one of New York’s representatives on the Peace Bridge Authority.  From 1988-1999 he worked in county government including seven years as Erie County Attorney.  Schoetz received his B.A. in Political Economics from Williams College, and earned his J.D. from the University at Buffalo Law School where he was editor-in-chief of the Law Review.