Albemarle’s communications director to serve as interim economic development director

Albemarle’s third economic development director began work last December but did not make it to the six month mark. 

Effective today, Emily Kilroy will be serving in the position on an interim basis following the departure of Barry Albrecht who resigned for personal reasons. Before his brief stint in Albemarle, Albrecht had been CEO of the Central Arizona Economic Development Foundation. 

Kilroy has been Assistant to County Executive Jeffrey Richardson, a position that also included being director of Albemarle’s Office of Community and Public Engagement. That’s a position that oversees communications. 

Now Abbey Stumpf will be the interim director of an office with the acronym CAPE. 

Albrecht was appointed following the resignation of Roger Johnson, who was hired soon after the departure of Faith McClintic in October 2016. McClintic was the first person to hold the title of economic development director after Supervisors agreed to elevate a position that for many years had been called Business Development Facilitator. 

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