A longtime familiar face at Partnership Gwinnett has left the economic development organization to take a new job at Georgia Power.
Andrew Carnes, who had been Partnership Gwinnett’s vice-president of economic development since 2019 and had been with the organization for nearly a decade, joined Georgia Power this week as the community and economic development manager for the northeast region. Georgia Power announced the hiring on Monday.
“I am excited to join a fantastic economic development team,” Carnes said in a announcement to friends on Facebook. “I look forward to working with all the communities in northeast Georgia.”
Carnes joined Partnership Gwinnett in 2015 and was the organization’s senior director of economic development before he was promoted to the vice-president’s position nearly four years ago. As vice president, he led Partnership Gwinnett’s team.
He worked for the Dalton-Whitfield County Joint Development Authority, including serving as its executive director, before he joined Partnership Gwinnett.
The region Carnes will be working with at Georgia Power includes about 24 counties and cities such as Gainesville, Athens, Blairsville, Commerce, Monroe, Madison, Winder and Covington. It does not, however, include Gwinnett County, which is part of Georgia Power’s Metro North Region.
Partnership Gwinnett is the economic development arm of the Gwinnett Chamber. As such, the chamber is in the process of looking at candidates to fill the vacancy created by Carnes’ departure….
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