SOREDI Promotes Tech Companies to Help Them Prosper

Represents Rogue Tech Collective at OIT Career Fair in Klamath Falls

Medford, Ore. – February 26, 2016: – SOREDI, in partnership with the Rogue Workforce Partnership, represented the newly formed Rogue Tech Collective at Oregon Tech’s Annual Spring Career Fair.  Colleen Padilla, Senior Business Development Manager for SOREDI and Graham Hetland, Business Services Coordinator for the Rogue Workforce Partnership, staffed two tables representing eleven Rogue Valley companies offering varying engineering or related high tech positions.

Utilizing Southern Oregon Edge profiles, and a flyer outlining key positions at each company, SOREDI and RWP shared job opportunities with numerous students who will be entering the workforce in the next several years. Companies represented included: Met One Instruments, Pro Care Software, Rogue Valley Microdevices, Radio Design Group, Zeal, Carestream, Diode Laser Concepts, Quantum Innovations, Linx Technologies, Harry & David, and Lithia – all of which offer various high-tech positions in engineering fields.

The Rogue Tech Collective represent numerous other high-tech companies in the region, as well, that are joining to create increased awareness of the growing and diverse set of high-tech businesses in Southern Oregon and the current and future workforce needs. Key supporting members also include Lifeline Computers and CBT Nuggets based in downtown Medford. The group is already planning additional regional tech industry tours for prospective students, educators, and the public at large, including plans to bring over Computer Science students from Oregon Tech later this spring and in the fall to meet with local tech companies, network, and tour the region. The events will also be open to SOU and RCC students.

According to Adam Cuppy, co-founder of Zeal, the environment and culture in Southern Oregon is great making it easy to attract talent. “We get people who are tired of a 45-minute drive to work.” Adam adds that the regional has a cultural and social pace that is diverse.

Colleen Padilla also notes that with the Milken Institutes recent rankings of both the Medford/Ashland and Grants Pass MSA’s on the “Best Performing Small Cities” list, the region is gaining momentum as a great place to small tech companies to launch, relocate, and prosper. “SOREDI has always been committed to helping our key industries grow. Our work with the Rogue Tech Collective to help them promote their respective companies and attract key personnel is just one of many ways we are poised to help business prosper. This was a successful opening event the group and we’ve returned with many resumes of prospective interns and future employees.”

Information on Rogue Tech Collective events forthcoming will be posted on SOREDI’s website at www.soredi.org and the Rogue Tech Hub website at www.roguetechhub.com. Companies interested in joining the Collective, should contact SOREDI @ (541)773-8946 or Adam Cuppy, Zeal @ (541) 660-3681.

About SOREDI: SOREDI is a private, membership-based, non-profit organization, governed by a board of directors. Its staff is charged with local business expansion and new business recruitment efforts, financial assistance to start-up companies through its business loan fund, and management of Enterprise Zones in Jackson and Josephine Counties. The agency was formed as a regional economic development agency in 1987. Learn more at https://soredi.org.

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