Brian Hall

Brian Hall serves as the Senior Vice President and Executive Director of Equity and Inclusion for the Greater Cleveland Partnership. In addition to his duties at the Greater Cleveland Partnership, where he was a founding board member and five-year Co-Chair of its Commission on Economic Inclusion, he is also a small business owner and investor. For over 30 years his companies have provided contract staffing intra and inter plant logistics, warehouse services, parking and distribution solutions. They served many Fortune 100 customers across America.

Hall has served on several civic boards and task forces in the areas of health, economic development, youth education, music arts and culture. A director and member of the strategy and compensation committees and the chair of the governance and community benefits committees of University Hospital Health Systems; a Trustee and Chair of the Finance Committee for the University of Cincinnati Foundation; and the chairman of the R.E.A.L. Re-Entry committee at Mount Zion Church where he also is a trustee.

Among his many activities he founded the Tremont Elementary School Advisory group in 1991, which mentored 14 young males through high school. He was a founding member and 10-year president of the Presidents’ Council LLC a collaboration of CEO’s focused on economic growth and wealth creation in the African American community. He is the current chair of the Black YPO Network, an international network of black CEOs who are YPO members. Hall has received numerous awards including the R. H. Adler Community Leadership Award from the American Jewish Committee, Volunteer of the Year by Leadership Cleveland; The Man of the Year from Cleveland Public Theater; Father of the Year by American Diabetes Association and Supplier of the Year for Community service by Ford Motor Company. He has also been named as one of the 100 influential leaders in Northeast Ohio by Cleveland Magazine and as part of the Power Pack 100 by Crain’s Cleveland Business. He was inducted into Inside Business Magazine, Hall of Fame in 2010.

Hall earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Cincinnati and an Executive Master’s in Business Administration from Baldwin Wallace University. He additionally completed four annual executive tracks in business management at The Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, and a certificate of strategic management with Georgetown University.