Everyone doing business on Long Island – most of us living here, too – owes a debt to the Island’s amazing Industrial Development Agencies, which work hard to ensure that Long Island startups stay here, that out-of-state businesses come here and that every entrepreneur and executive working here has the best chance to succeed.

No regional IDA is busier or bolder than the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency, under the steady guiding hand of Executive Director and CEO Kelly Murphy.

In today’s episode of Spark: The Innovate Long Island Podcast, Kelly joins Spark host Gregory Zeller to discuss her long public-service career, her biggest Island-wide socioeconomic victories, important housing progress and Suffolk’s latest industrial-development initiatives – plus her very special connection to one of Major League Baseball’s all-time greatest voices.