
Invest in Team NEO
Together, we can grow businesses, create jobs and build prosperity for everyone in the 18 counties of Northeast Ohio.
About Team NEO
Join Us
Investing in Team NEO provides you an opportunity to engage in the important work being done to grow our regional economy.
Investor Benefits
Direct access to Northeast Ohio’s business leaders and government officials. We bring together business leaders, civic leaders, nonprofits and higher education to help inform our research and prioritize solutions to the challenges facing our regional economy.
Direct access to Northeast Ohio’s business leaders and government officials
We bring together business leaders, civic leaders, nonprofits and higher education to help inform our research and prioritize solutions to the challenges facing our regional economy.
Connectivity to other Team NEO investors and our corporate clients
Engagement with Team NEO allows your organization’s leaders to engage with their peers, discuss best practices, and prioritize solutions to regional economic challenges.
Introductions to new businesses moving into the Northeast Ohio region
Your investment in Team NEO helps build momentum for the Northeast Ohio region, and allows you to be among the first to connect and build relationships with new businesses moving into the region.
Networking opportunities at our invitation-only events throughout the year
When you engage with Team NEO, you strengthen your connection to the economic development network in the Northeast Ohio region and receive access to resources for continued growth.
Timely and relevant economic development information
Team NEO’s role is to see the big picture – to align and amplify the economic development work happening locally towards a shared goal: creating jobs and building prosperity for everyone in our communities. As an investor, you will be among the first to benefit from Team NEO’s insights.
Recognition on the Team NEO website and at all our signature events
Your investment in Team NEO increases the visibility of your organization’s efforts to be a changemaker – an organization who drives solutions to positively impact the Northeast Ohio Region.
A voice at business development, talent development and NEO RightSites councils
As an investor, you have the opportunity to participate in councils to help inform solutions to economic challenges our economy faces. You help drive success for the companies, communities, and individuals in the Northeast Ohio Region.
Team NEO Investments
We’re Making an impact.
Since 2018, Team NEO, JobsOhio, and the Northeast Ohio Economic Development Network have worked on more than 438 projects with companies that will generate:
33,305
New Jobs from Projects
$10.24 Billion
In Capital Investments
$1.8 Billion
In Annual Payroll
Team NEO Investors Include
Since 2015, Team NEO, JobsOhio, and the Northeast Ohio Economic Development Network have worked on more than 583 projects with companies that will generate:

“Falls & Co. believes it is the community’s responsibility to invest in Team NEO’s economic development. An investment in a region where we live and work, to accelerate change and support markets with talent, state-of-the-art developments, and advancements in manufacturing.”
– Rob Falls, President & CEO, Falls Co.

“AMHigley invests in the communities in which we build. We are driven by enhancing the communities that we live and work in.”
– Gareth D. Vaughan, President & CEO, The Albert M. Higley Co., LLC

“Kent State University invests in Team NEO to strengthen the relationship between the universities and the business community of Northeast Ohio by creating pathways for our students and graduates to intern and ultimately be hired permanently within the region.”
– Todd Diacon, President, Kent State University
Investor Spotlight

Dawn Southard
Vice President, Investor RelationsInvestor Relations, Team NEO