President/CEO

Office: 850-932-1500

jessica@visitpensacolabeach.com

A local native, Jessica Simpson brings with her more than 20 years of experience in nonprofit management. Simpson has served as the Vice President of Membership for the Pensacola Beach Chamber of Commerce for the past two years and the Director of Membership and Operations for the Greater Pensacola Chamber of Commerce for more than five years.

In other roles, Simpson has worked as the executive director of the Health and Hope Clinic of Pensacola, a non-profit organization providing free Gospel-centered healthcare to the uninsured and working poor. Prior to that Simpson worked as executive director of the Pensacola chapter of the American Cancer Society.

Through these roles, Simpson gained skills in fundraising for both large and small corporate events, grant writing, nonprofit management, volunteer recruitment and event planning.

Simpson currently serves as a board member for a local non-profit, Crowned for Ashes.  She also is the owner of a local small business, Let’s Say Grace, offering private dinner parties along the Gulf Coast.

Born in Pensacola and raised in Gulf Breeze, Simpson is a hometown girl having attended the University of West Florida. She now resides in Navarre with her husband, Matt, and their two children, Milly May and Sam.