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Nashville Business Breakfast


Founded in 2007, the Nashville Business Breakfast is a quarterly networking event, presented by Lipscomb University and the Nashville Business Journal, with a news-conference-style format, featuring business leaders with local economic impact. With an average attendance of more than 600 metro area professionals, the event provides an opportunity to connect with peers and hear a pertinent discussion with a business leader in the community.

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In Person and Virtual Business Breakfast

 

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Jennifer Turner

President and CEO, Tennessee Performing Arts Center

George Shinn Center

 

Jennifer Turner

Jennifer Turner is the President and Chief Executive Officer for Tennessee Performing Arts Center®, a Nashville-based nonprofit arts organization dedicated to excellence in the performing arts and arts education. Since 1980, TPAC® has welcomed more than 14 million audience members and served more than 2 million students, teachers, and adults with performances, teacher resources, professional development, classroom residencies, and enrichment programs.

Formerly, Turner served as Executive Vice President and Managing Director for Segerstrom Center for the Arts, an acclaimed arts institution in Southern California, where she built a world-class leadership team, led innovative community initiatives, and spearheaded multi-million-dollar capital development projects, including the successful completion of the 56,000 square foot Julianne and George Argyros Plaza. With more than 20 years of experience in nonprofits arts, Turner previously was the Chief Operating Officer for the national historic landmark Auditorium Theatre in Chicago and held roles with Michigan Opera Theatre and Shakespeare Theatre Company.

She is a graduate of Michigan State University and holds a graduate degree from Roosevelt University in Public Administration, Nonprofit Management.

 

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Sponsor

The Nashville Business Breakfast is sponsored by PNC Bank.

PNC Bank