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
Tara Alexander
Director, Marketing & Communications
taraa@cheyenneleads.org		 Karen Gastineau
Office Manager
kareng@cheyenneleads.org

LEADS Board Members

Jim Murphy
CHAIR
AVI Engineering		 Leigh West
VICE CHAIR
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center
Mark Stege
TREASURER
Cheyenne Light, Fuel & Power		 Dixie Roberts
SECRETARY
Ameriprise Financial Services
Steve Lovas
PAST CHAIR
US Bank		 Lynne Boomgaarden
Belcher & Boomgaarden
Kevin Burke
HollyFrontier Oil Corp.		 Ken Dugas
McGee, Hearne & Paiz
Randy Ford
Brewster Miller Financial 		Ed Georges
DT's Liquors
Robert Harmon
Holiday Inn 		Brian Heithoff
High West Energy
Gary Imig
Sierra Trading Post		 Brandon Kramer
Bank of the West
David Johnson
CenturyLink 		Ann Nelson
American National Bank
Matt Pope
First Interstate Bank; Joint Powers Board
 Catherine Rogers
Individual
Barry Sims
Taco John's International		 Tom Stuckey
Wells Fargo Bank Wyoming, NA
Kim Sutherland
#1 Properties		 Stephanie Teubner
Warren Federal Credit Union
Stan Torvik
Laramie County Community College		 Scott Walker
Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Christine Weber
EchoStar Communications
 Bob Womack
Spradley Barr Motors
   
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		 Gay Woodhouse
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.