Personnel

Dan McIntosh – Dan became the director of the Wyoming Center for Business and Economic Analysis in 2025. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business information systems from the University of Colorado Boulder, a master’s degree in interdisciplinary telecommunications from the University of Colorado Boulder, and completed his doctoral work in economics at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on public policy, economic development, and the fiscal impacts of major investments. Before becoming director of the WCBEA, Dan worked in telecommunications and information technology and later served as the IT Pathway Coordinator at Laramie County Community College. He helped lead LCCC’s designation as a National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense and has worked on grant-funded efforts to expand technology education, scholarships, and rural access to IT resources. He currently teaches courses in economics, public policy, and related fields at Laramie County Community College.

Matt Sackett – Matt was the director of the Wyoming Center for Business and Economic Analysis from 2024 to 2025.  He attended the University of Wyoming and received his bachelor’s degree in finance with a minor in banking.  He went on to receive his master’s degree in finance as well as a master’s degree in economics from the University of Wyoming.  After graduate school he worked for the Wyoming Legislative Service Office in the Research Division as well as the Budget/Fiscal Division.  Most recently, he spent time working at the State Treasurer’s Office as the Senior Policy Advisor to the State Treasurer. 

Nick Colsch – Nick was the director of the Wyoming Center for Business and Economic Analysis in the summer of 2018 to 2024. He completed his undergraduate work in accounting, marketing, and economics at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and earned his master’s degree in economics at Western Illinois University in Macomb. 

Richard O’Gara – Richard was the founder and director of the Wyoming Center for Business and Economic Analysis for the first 32 years of its existence and gratefully relinquished the directorship in the summer of 2015 so he could begin to move towards retirement. He completed his undergraduate work in economics at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio and earned his master’s degree in economics at the University of Wyoming. He taught Economics, Money, and Banking, Financial Management, and other courses for 27 years at Laramie County Community College before retiring from teaching in 2002.

In 1983, Richard created the Center for Economic and Business Data while at Laramie County Community College and moved the center to downtown Cheyenne in June 2004, changing its name to the Wyoming Center for Business and Economic Analysis. In the summer of 2015, the WCBEA returned to the Laramie County Community College campus where it remains a part of the college. Prior to working at the college, Richard directed the Research and Statistics Division of the Wyoming Department of Labor and worked as a fiscal administrator for the Wyoming Recreation Commission. The author of numerous economic and financial columns, Richard also works as a forensic economist.

Call us at (307) 778-1151 or e-mail us at: [email protected]

Wyoming Center for Business & Economic Analysis @ LCCC

1400 E College Drive
Cheyenne, Wy 82007
Fax: (307) 778-1352

Dan McIntosh
Director, Wyoming Center for Business and Economic Analysis
Instructor, Economics & Public Policy
Laramie County Community College
1400 East College Drive
Cheyenne, WY 82007
www.lccc.wy.edu
Phone: 307-778-1151
Email: [email protected]

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