Tom Kucharski
Thomas A. Kucharski has served as President and CEO of Invest Buffalo Niagara since 2000. Under his leadership, Invest Buffalo Niagara has grown from a start-up initiative to an innovative regional economic development organization that has secured more than 400 successful project wins representing $4.4 billion in investment in the region and over 42,000 jobs created and/or retained.
Tom Kucharski has been a guest on 1 episode.
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176: From Rust Belt to Tech Hub: Buffalo's 25-Year Transformation with Tom Kucharski
June 2nd, 2025 | 32 mins 29 secs
43 north, buffalo, clean energy, eco devo, econdev, economic development, manufacturing, population growth, regionalism, semiconductor tech hub, startup competition, western new york
Tom Kucharski, President and CEO of Invest Buffalo Niagara, discusses how Western New York transformed from industrial decline to becoming the nation's only semiconductor tech hub, achieving its first population growth in decades while leveraging abundant clean energy and a $1 million startup competition.