2023 STL June Monthly Meeting

Jason Hall is the CEO of Greater St. Louis, Inc., an alliance of St. Louis’ civic-minded business community focused on growing the metro and expanding opportunity for all. Greater St. Louis, Inc. brings together businesses and civic leaders to create jobs, expand inclusive economic growth, and improve St. Louis’ global competitiveness by speaking with a unified voice, leading with a bold agenda, and acting as one metropolitan region anchored by a vibrant urban core.

Prior to becoming CEO of Greater St. Louis, Inc., Jason was CEO and Co-Founder of Arch to Park, a civic-minded investment organization focused on revitalization of urban core of St. Louis that launched a nearly $200M patient capital real estate fund.  Jason brings to his work both private- and public-sector experience, including serving in Missouri Governor Jay Nixon’s cabinet as the leader of Missouri Department of Economic Development and the Missouri Technology Corporation, where he launched the state’s venture capital fund for early-stage companies.

The first in his family to earn a college degree and the first openly LGBT person appointed to a cabinet-level position in Missouri, Mr. Hall is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bates College and Vanderbilt University Law School, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review. Mr. Hall served as a law clerk with the Honorable Gerald Bard Tjoflat of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. After his clerkship, Mr. Hall began his legal career at Bryan Cave LLP.

Mr. Hall serves on a variety of civic boards and has been honored by the World Trade Center St. Louis, St. Louis Business Journal, NAACP of St. Louis County, ESRI, and other organizations for his community leadership.

Jason and his partner, Justin Kern, a medical researcher at Washington University Medical School, reside in the historic Compton Heights neighborhood in the City of St. Louis.