Why he’s a 2019 Top 40 Under 40: He helps attract billions worth of investment into Alberta’s Industrial Heartland.
Garret Matteotti believes in having a positive impact on Alberta’s communities by contributing to the growth and diversity of the province’s economy.
Working for the Alberta Industrial Heartland Association over the past seven years, he’s engaged with companies looking to make major industrial investments into the Edmonton area.
Matteotti says that during construction, these facilities will have over 2,000 workers on site and that long-term operations will provide approximately 300 “very high-paying, very stable, long-term jobs.”
When he’s not working to bolster the local economy, Matteotti volunteers with Habitat for Humanity and the Edmonton Food Bank. A former competitive basketball player, he also passed on his skills as a coach at J. Percy Page High School from 2007 to 2011.
“Growing up I had a lot of people that volunteered to coach me, something I truly benefited from, and it gave me the opportunity to give back,” Matteotti says.
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This article appears in the November 2019 issue of Avenue Edmonton.