J A I  F E R R E L L is an award-winning global executive with expertise in leadership, marketing & brand strategy, customer experience, operations, personnel management, and revenue generating programming

 

Ms. Ferrell is the Chief Executive Officer of Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta (GSGATL) serving over 35,000 members throughout 35 counties in Georgia with a $25MM annual revenue portfolio.  GSGATL is the fifth largest council in size of the 111 councils throughout the nation.   Most notably, she is the first person of color to lead the organization in its 100+ year history.

 

Prior to joining GSGATL, she was the Chief Commercial Revenue Officer for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) managing the commercial portfolio that exceeded $1.5 billion in gross revenue each year under her leadership. She was the first person to ever hold this role at the busiest airport in the world.   

 

While her professional impact is global in reach her passion is granular, impressing the communities she frequents. She lends her expertise as a board member for the Andrew & Walter Young YMCA, the Grove Park Foundation and as a multiyear principal partner with Atlanta, Clayton, DeKalb and Fulton County Schools. 

 

Ferrell’s award-winning career spans over two decades, including work in entertainment television, consumer products and sports contributions to WarnerMedia, CNN, Major League Baseball, Viacom and BET Networks. She has been acknowledged as one of Atlanta Magazine’s 500 Top Leaders (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022); U.S. Black Chambers POWER 50 Women in Influence (2025); Who's Who in America Honoree (2025); Georgia State University’s 40 under 40 (2023); Women Leading Travel & Hospitality Honoree (2023); Atlanta Magazine’s Women Making a Mark (2023); National Alumnae Association of Spelman College’s Distinguished Alumnae (2019, Atlanta Chapter); Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 40 under 40 class (2019); Atlanta Tribune Magazine’s Woman of Excellence (2019); and Airport Business Magazine’s 40 under 40 class (2017).

 

This fifth generation Atlantan is a proud Spelman College honors alumna (magna cum laude) and holds a master’s degree in communication from Georgia State University.  She has also completed the Harvard Business School Executive Education program earning the Certificate of Management Excellence.  She is an esteemed 2021 American Cancer Society ResearcHER ambassador; 2017 Lead Atlanta alumni; graduate of the KPMG Executive Women in Leadership program; active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated; a life member of The Phi Beta Kappa honor society and a life member of Girl Scouts of USA.