On Jan. 1, 2015, David Jackson succeeded Kevin Knight as CEO of Knight Transportation.

James Glassman, managing director and head economist for commercial banking at JPMorgan Chase & Co., and John Lonski, managing director and chief financial markets economist at Moody's Analytics, agreed that the economy of the nation, like Arizona, is recovering but not yet recovered.

At the 51st Annual ASU/JPMorgan Chase Economic Forecast Luncheon, two experts shared their progress reports on the economic recovery in Arizona. Both Lee McPheters and Elliott Pollack said that construction jobs lie at the heart of the job growth problem.

Ray Anderson is Arizona State University’s athletic director and university vice president. Before accepting the position in January 2014, Anderson was managing football operations for the NFL. At the Economic Club of Phoenix luncheon on Oct.

Full economic recovery is still at least two years away, according to experts from the W. P. Carey School of Business who delivered their midyear forecasts at the school’s annual Economic Outlook Luncheon on May 8, 2014.