Michael Hecht, CEO of Greater New Orleans, Inc, the post-Hurricane Katrina regional economic development organization, has deep ancestral roots in New Orleans but he didn’t call the city home until after Hurricane Katrina had struck in 2005. Hecht, who until that point had lived on either coast, had worked in post-disaster redevelopment during a post-9/11 stint in New York in the Bloomberg Administration. His wife fell in love with New Orleans during a meandering cross-country honeymoon and they have been there ever since. GNO is not a business, but it is the engine driving the resurgence of t…