Jason Hamman is the President and Founder of The Hamman Consulting Group. Established in February 2013, The Hamman Consulting Group provides a full range of location advisory, site selection and economic development services to private and public sector clients.
Jason’s work with private sector clients includes site selection and location analysis, identification and acquisition of tax incentives and grants and real estate brokerage services. He also works with economic development organizations to prepare economic development strategic plans, identify target industry sectors, labor market/workforce analysis, site development/analysis, market/feasibility studies, grant writing and project management services.
From to 2008 to 2013, Jason was a Senior Consultant with Silverlode Consulting Corp. in Cleveland. During his tenure at Silverlode, Jason worked with a variety of private sector clients, including a publically traded iron-ore mining company, a global leader in welding products, a market leading food processing equipment manufacturer, an aviation MRO company, a multi-national call center operator and a large healthcare organization, as well as many public sector clients, including multi-county regional economic development organizations, large cities, and rural counties.
Prior to joining Silverlode, Jason was a member of the research department at Team NEO, an 18-county regional economic development organization representing Northeast Ohio. His work at Team NEO supported business attraction and expansion efforts by providing customized analysis of economic indicators and demographic data, labor market and industry analysis, economic impact modeling, and GIS mapping. Jason also worked as an Economic Development Specialist for the Lorain County Community Development Department.
In March 2018, Jason founded The Hamman Realty Group, Inc., an Ohio based commercial real estate brokerage. Jason earned a Master of Public Administration degree from the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Cleveland State University.