Four people have been appointed to a blue-ribbon panel for promoting Connecticut’s economic development and recommending policies to spur competitiveness.
West Hartford executive Marc T. Shafer will chair the Connecticut Competitiveness Council, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced Friday. The council was formed by legislative fiat on July 1.
Shafer, 53, currently a graduate student at Trinity College, is being joined by panel members John Payne, 69, of Washington, CEO of Century Business Sales in Clinton; Naeem Khalid of Avon, owner of the Sam’s Food convenience-store chain; and Charles LeConche, business manager of the Connecticut Laborers’ District Council.
Shafer, Payne, 69, and Khalid, 53, are Rell’s three appointees to the panel. Their terms begin Oct. 1 and end Sept. 30, 2012.
The rest of the 20 panel members are appointed by Connecticut business and labor interests.
The council’s first report is due Jan. 1 to the state Department of Economic and Community Development.
