Ed McCallum
Senior Principal

Ed McCallum, a senior principal in McCallum Sweeney Consulting, provides site selection services and economic development consulting to companies and organizations worldwide.

Twenty years of experience in the site selection industry includes a myriad of industrial, headquarters and warehousing site selection endeavors. Before starting McCallum Sweeney Consulting, Inc., Ed was the Managing Principal of Fluor’s Global Location Strategies Group, having dedicated 14 years performing site selection and economic development consulting.

Mr. McCallum has assisted clients in a wide variety of industries, from manufacturing to warehousing and distribution. Recent clients include PACCAR (engine manufacturing), LM Glasfiber (wind energy), Austal (shipbuilding), Atlantic Marine (maritime transportation), BP (petrochemical spin off), Weil McLain (hydraulic heating), Boeing (aeronautics), Kasle Steel (steel blanking auto supplier), Mitsubishi (auto assembler), Tower Automotive (auto frame assemblies), Vought/Alenia (aircraft manufacturing), and International Shipholding Corporation (headquarters relocation).

Mr. McCallum has conducted siting projects in Europe, Asia, South America, Mexico as well as most regions of the United States and Canada. Specific experience includes location analysis, economic research, financial analysis, site evaluation, real estate negotiations, incentive negotiations, computer modeling and programming, strategy assessments, and marketing analysis. International experience includes project investigations in Mexico, the Netherlands, Caribbean, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Belgium, Austria, France, Luxembourg, Vietnam, Canada, Taiwan, Argentina and the United Kingdom.

Mr. McCallum also provides consulting services to leading economic development organizations across the United States in such areas as strategic planning and organizational design, site certification, incentive strategies and sustainable development strategies. He was responsible for designing and heading up Pennsylvania’s Certified Sites program – known as “Select Sites”TM and continuing with Phase II of the same program in a web enabled environment. In addition, he managed Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) automotive mega-site certification program within the entire TVA service territory and helped Duke Energy with comprehensive mega-site identification for the automotive industry and a site qualification program for select target-market industries. Due to the TVA megasite program PACCAR, Toyota and Servcor have invested within TVA’s service territory.

Mr. McCallum has a Masters in City and Regional Planning from Clemson University and a Bachelor of Business Administration from James Madison University. Ed received an athletic scholarship to Indiana University and later a vice-presidential appointment to the United States Air Force Academy while serving active duty.

Ed is married to Michelle McCallum and has two children, a son and a daughter, attending college. He lives in Inman, South Carolina.