Feltman to pursue law, business in Indianapolis

Outgoing state Commerce Secretary Nate Feltman said that he likely will return
to practicing law and become involved in business after leaving the post at the end of the month.

Feltman said he plans to stay in Indianapolis, though he wouldn’t divulge details of his plans.

"This is a place my family and friends live," the 38-year-old Mishawaka native said.

In an announcement Dec. 18, Gov. Mitch Daniels said Feltman would be replaced by Family and Social Services Administration
chief Mitch Roob. Roob will be replaced by Deputy FSSA secretary and chief of staff Anne Waltermann Murphy.

Also leaving the administration is Bureau of Motor Vehicle Commissioner Ron Stiver. Stiver will be replaced by Andy Miller,
who currently heads the Office of Disaster Recovery.

Roob helped former Indianapolis Mayor Steve Goldsmith as he shifted government services to a competition basis, and later
held leadership posts at Wishard Hospital parent Health and Hospital Corp. and White River Environmental Partnership, a company
that managed the city’s wastewater.

Feltman was vice president of IEDC before being named to take over the private not-for-profit two years ago.

Feltman said he took satisfaction in a number of projects he helped attract, but that the Medco Health Solutions Inc. warehouse
now being built at AllPoints at Anson in Boone County encompassed many of the traits IEDC attempted to accomplish with its
deals.

The New Jersey company tapped into local strengths, including pharmacy schools at Butler and Purdue universities. The state
also attracted Medco to a region of the state and then allowed it to choose a specific site.

Moreover, Medco was big — second only to the Honda Manufacturing of Indiana plant in Greensburg in total wages generated.
The
average Medco wage is expected to be driven up by pharmacists that the company plans to hire.

And Indiana landed Medco with only half the incentives — about $19 million — that were offered by the other finalist,
Kentucky.
Medco chose Indiana partly because Indiana regulators beat Kentucky to the punch in rewriting obsolete rules prohibiting robots
from dispensing pharmaceuticals.