EDC Leaderless Five Months In — Business Community Pressure Mounts

NYCEDC has had no permanent president/CEO since Andrew Kimball resigned in January 2026; CFO Jeanny Pak serves as interim. Multiple candidates passed over (Lindsay Greene, James Katz, Julie Stein). Crain's ran a Jun 5 editorial demanding a hire; NYT and Gothamist coverage frames it as a jobs-agenda vacuum while Mamdani says he wants a leader who delivers "economic justice and economic growth hand-in-hand."