LEADS Vision Statement

Cheyenne LEADS will be recognized as a premier economic development organization that brings progress and prosperity to the entire community of Laramie County.

About Cheyenne LEADS

Cheyenne LEADS is a private, not-for-profit economic development organization serving as the economic development entity for the City of Cheyenne and Laramie County, Wyoming. LEADS garners its operating funding from the City of Cheyenne, Laramie County, the Cheyenne-Laramie County Joint Powers Board and more than 300 corporate and individual dues-paying members. LEADS can assist non-retail businesses in all phases of relocation or expansion in the area. If you have any questions, send an email to the address listed to the right or call 800-255-0742.

Services offered through LEADS:

  • site location
  • employee training
  • workforce evaluation
  • demographic
  • financial assistance

Innovative in encouraging growth, Cheyenne LEADS is the sole owner of the Cheyenne Business Parkway, a fully developed business park with 24 tracts still available. LEADS is currently developing the North Range Business Park with 640 additional acres on I-80 west of Cheyenne.

The LEADS staff can assist efforts to "fast track" business development efforts.

Cheyenne LEADS Staff

Randy Bruns
Chief Executive Officer
rbruns@cheyenneleads.org 		Anja Bendel
Director, Business Development
anjab@cheyenneleads.org
Annie Wood
Director, Marketing & Communications
anniew@cheyenneleads.org
 Karen Gastineau
Office Manager
kareng@cheyenneleads.org

LEADS Board Members

Leigh West
CHAIR
Individual		 Mark Stege
VICE CHAIR
Cheyenne Light, Fuel & Power
Dixie Roberts
TREASURER
Ameriprise Financial Services		 Ken Dugas
SECRETARY
McGee, Hearne & Paiz
Jim Murphy
PAST CHAIR
AVI Engineering		 Brian Heithoff
High West Energy
Lynne Boomgaarden
Belcher & Boomgaarden 		Eddie Georges
DT's Liquors
Gregory Dyekman
Dray, Dyekman, Reed, Healey PC		 Pat Higgins
Orrison Distributing
John Hostetter
Wells Fargo Bank 		Brandon Kramer
Bank of the West
Gary Imig
Sierra Trading Post		 Steve Lovas
US Bank
David Johnson
CenturyLink 		Ann Nelson
ANB Bank
Kim Lovett
Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra
 Kim Sutherland
#1 Properties
Matt Pope
First Interstate Bank; Joint Powers Board		 Dr. Joe Schaffer
Laramie County Community College
Tom Stuckey
Wells Fargo Bank Wyoming, NA		 Scott Walker
Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Stephanie Teubner
Warren Federal Credit Union		 Christine Weber
EchoStar Communications
Phil Van Horn
The Align Team
  
   
John Gross
EX OFFICIO
Eastern Laramie County		 Dave Haring
EX OFFICIO
Cheyenne Airport Board
Rick Kaysen
EX OFFICIO
City of Cheyenne Mayor 		Darren Rudloff
EX OFFICIO
Visit Cheyenne
Dale Steenbergen
EX OFFICIO
Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce		 Troy Thompson
EX OFFICIO
Laramie County Commissioner

 


LEADS Office

Cheyenne LEADS
One Depot Square,
121 W. 15th St., Suite 304
Cheyenne, WY 82001

Click here to view a map of this location

Phone: (307) 638-6000
Toll Free: (800) 255-0742
Fax: (307) 638-7728

History of Cheyenne LEADS

Cheyenne LEADS, the Cheyenne-Laramie County Corporation for Economic Development, is an outgrowth of the deliberations, studies, wide-ranging in-depth interviews and public workshop conducted by an Economic Development Task force established in late 1985 to formulate an economic development strategy for Cheyenne and Laramie County, Wyoming. The result, Cheyenne LEADS is a new kind of organization, whose structure has been carefully thought out to respond both to the Economic Development needs of Cheyenne and Laramie County-as the people themselves have identified them-and to the realities of the marketplace.

The task force discovered that meaningful economic development requires a sustained, full-time, business-like approach. Cheyenne LEADS has been organized as a business, managed by paid, professional staff and accountable to the "stockholders," its dues paying members.