Hickey Global Economic Development Consulting (Hickey Global) is a full-service economic development consulting firm supporting private, public and non-profit economic development organizations around the world.

Oversee Business Development for American Electric Power, (AEP), an 11-state investor owned electric utility. Oversee national accounts, economic development, strategic marketing and our Associated Business Development subsidiary. Collectively we work to support companies considering investment into AEP's communities, provide account management and business development work with our top commercial and industrial customers and work to bring new energy solutions to our customers. Serving over 5.5 million customers across 225,000 square miles of the US, AEP is one of the largest investor owned electric utilities. Included in our portfolio are more miles of high-voltage transmission facilities than any other, renewable energy facilities in 35 US states, and an economic base across many growth industries including, Energy, (shale and LNG export), Auto, Steel, Aeronautics, Food and General Manufacturing.

Our economic development team provides comprehensive location assistance to firms considering job creating investment in our 11 state, 200,000 square mile (518,000 square kilometers) service area. We also provide assistance and account relationships with our national accounts and major employers.

Our firm helps economic development organization with the effective use of technology. We offer web site reviews, contact management system design, web strategies, assistance with web design and other uses of technology in the economic development organization.