Halifax Community College’s Workforce and Economic Development Division hosted a reception for Jerry Edmonds, the new Small Business Center director, last week at the campus.
Prior to his service at HCC, Edmonds was most recently the director of business development at E.R. Abernathy Industrial.
He has held leadership positions with Johnson & Johnson and IBM during his extensive corporate career.
During the course of his career, Edmonds has served on numerous community boards with emphasis placed on economic development and causes beneficial to youth and elderly populations.
Edmonds earned a bachelor of business administration with an emphasis on marketing from Marshall University and a master of science with an emphasis on human service management from Springfield College.