Small Hub Inclusion Champion: Jackson Municipal Airport Authority The Jackson Municipal Airport Authority (JMAA) has formed its policies and procedures to actively encourage, support and mentor small and disadvantaged businesses. To ensure the whole community is engaged in their business practices, JMAA hosts public meetings to announce new business plans. Similarly, JMMAA’s Workforce Inclusion Program recognized the value of total diversity in the workplace and has made it a priority to recruit and hire key personnel from a diverse pool of qualified candidates. The JMMAA’s Leadership in Aviation Excellence Program is designed to prepare the authority’s employees for the next step in their aviation career. Through this program, eighteen leaders have joined the organization’s diverse leadership team. In addition, JMMAA supports future aviation professionals in their community through their internship program.
Associate Inclusion Champion: MarketPlace Development
Marketplace Development received the Associate Inclusion Champion Award at the 2016 ACI-NA Inclusion Champion Awards. Shown left to right: Maureen Riley, ACI-NA Chair; Clarence LeJeune, President of LeJeune and Associates; Paul McGinn, President of MarketPlace Development; Michael DiCosola, Executive Vice President of MarketPlace Development; and Kevin M. Burke, ACINA President and CEO).
About ACI-NA Airports Council International-North America (ACINA) represents local, regional, and state governing bodies that own and operate commercial airports in the United States and Canada. ACI-NA member airports enplane more than 95 percent of the domestic and virtually all the international airline passenger and cargo traffic in North America. Approximately 380 aviationrelated businesses are also members of ACI-NA, providing goods and services to airports. Collectively, U.S. airports employ more than 1.3 million people and account for $1.2 trillion in economic activity—or 7 percent of the total U.S. workforce and 8 percent of GDP. Canadian airports support 405,000 jobs and contribute C$35 billion to Canada’s GDP. Source: ACI-NA Press Release
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MarketPlace Development (MarketPlace) has a strong commitment to the inclusion of businesses that represent the diversity in the regions where they do business. The company’s aggressive approach to ensure the participation of small, local and diverse businesses has resulted in inclusion of their operations at Philadelphia International Airport, LaGuardia Airport Terminal B, Ronald Reagan National Airport, and Washington Dulles International Airport. MarketPlace’s commitment includes strong minority participation in the ownership and management structure, with 60 percent of the corporate leadership being female and 40 percent minority. In order to continue to succeed in nurturing a diverse workplace, MarketPlace assists their merchants by coordinating job fairs, often in conjunction with local colleges and community organizations. In 2015, over 3,326 people attended the job fairs at PHL, DCA and IAD that the company supported. In receiving ACI-NA’s Inclusion Champion Award, Paul McGinn, President of MarketPlace Development, thanked ACI-NA for the honor and recognized the MarketPlace staff for their strong and demonstrated commitment to the inclusion of businesses that represent the diversity in the regions in which MarketPlace does business. “Our MarketPlace staff in Boston, New York, DC, and Philadelphia should take pride in this award,” McGinn said. “It is their work that enabled MarketPlace to be recognized for being in the forefront of providing meaningful participation by Airport Concession Disadvantaged Business Enterprises in all aspects of our business.”
ACI-NA member airports enplane more than 95 percent of the domestic and virtually all the international airline passenger and cargo traffic in North America.