Leaders & Lagers - Featuring Jason Hester

Companies recruited with Greater Columbus Economic Development Corp. support today employ 7,600 persons locally and those jobs support an additional 1,100 local jobs and generate a combined $282 million in annual household spending.

Jason Hester brings nearly twenty years of local and state-level economic development experience to his role as President of the Greater Columbus (Indiana) Economic Development Corporation.  Building on the area’s strengths in advanced manufacturing, engineering, and foreign direct investment, Hester leads the area’s business retention and expansion efforts as well as business recruitment activities focused on targeted domestic and international opportunities. 

Before joining Greater Columbus EDC in 2010, Jason served as the central region director for the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, where he led business attraction and expansion efforts in the state’s largest region.