Jason Hall is the CEO of The Columbus Partnership. From St. Louis, Missouri, he previously served as CEO of Greater St. Louis, Inc. (GSL), the St. Louis metro’s business leadership organization.

Hall’s background spans the private and public sectors. His executive roles include serving as co-founder and CEO of Arch to Park, Vice President and General Counsel for the St. Louis Regional Chamber, and leading the Missouri Department of Economic Development as a member of former Missouri Governor Jay Nixon’s cabinet.

Hall was a key architect of a civic merger of five legacy St. Louis-focused business organizations, including Arch to Park, to create GSL as a unified metropolitan business-led civic platform. Through GSL, Hall oversaw the development of the metro’s first plan for inclusive prosperity in over a decade, which has been recognized nationally for its focus on inclusion. Since the launch of GSL in 2021, St. Louis has surged to a top-5 metro for job growth for the first time since 1990 and is now the 16^th-fastest growing metro GDP in the country. St. Louis is the nation’s 23rd-largest metropolitan area. Columbus, Ohio, ranks number 32 (source: Census.gov).

Through his work in St. Louis over the past eight years with Arch to Park and GSL, Hall has expanded CEO and stakeholder engagement in metropolitan civic affairs; helped secure record-breaking business attraction deals for the metro; organized industry sector growth initiatives in geospatial technology (GeoFutures) and advanced manufacturing; organized a nearly $200 million patient capital real estate fund to accelerate urban real estate transformation; secured major public policy wins spanning public safety, infrastructure and talent; and helped form the public-private partnership that restored non-stop air service from St. Louis to continental Europe for the first time in 20 years; catalyzed major Downtown and urban core revitalizations; and secured St. Louis’ nationally recognized winning proposal to the federal Build Back Better Regional Challenge.