LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Danielle Casey might be new to Las Vegas, but she's got a lot of experience in the job she's been hired to do here: bring new and different businesses to town.

Casey, hired just more than a month ago as the new president and CEO of the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance , has been working on economic development issues for years.

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She's worked as the economic development director in Maricopa and Scottsdale, Ariz., for the Greater Sacramento Economic Council in California's capital city, and for the Albuquerque Regional Economic Alliance.

She's the first person to head the alliance who wasn't already a Las Vegas residen

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