Alicia M. Ivey, trailblazing businesswoman, strategic innovator and purposeful change agent, has a track record of nearly 30 years’ success. She is the Co Founder and President of Goldbergs Concessions Corporation, an airport concessions and hospitality company in the world’s busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Alicia has established a commendable track record as an expert negotiator, tactful collaborator and trusted advisor with a domestic and international influence. Her areas of expertise are transportation (bus, rail and air), business development.

Alicia has played crucial roles with a number of corporate entities and worldwide brands to include (but not limited to) Focus Brands, Hartsfield -Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The Patricia Nash Brand, Heinemann Americas Corporation and Bacardi USA. As the Co-Founder of Goldbergs Concessions, the company has exclusive rights to the iconic Atlanta Braves All Star Grill, Goldberg’s Bagel and Deli, Subway and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights Center Exposition at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport.

Alicia’s exemplary leadership led to her appointment to the Board of The Airport Minority Advisory Council, The Fulton Dekalb Hospital Authority, Grady Corporation Board, the City of South.

Fulton’s Development Authority, as well as the Board of Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), the 8th largest transit system in the United States). Alicia is passionate about health care in the African American community and St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital’s tapped Alicia to Chair the St. Jude African American Advisory Council.

Alicia was also tapped by Civil Rights Icon Ambassador Andrew Young to serve as an Advisory Board Member for Greenwood Bank, a financial institution that is committed to the economic empowerment of minorities. Alicia served as Director of Economic Development for the National Black MBA Association. Additionally, she is a former board member and active member of the Atlanta Business League, where her business acumen earned her the honor of being named Woman of the Year as well as one of the 100 Most Influential African American Women in Atlanta. Alicia’s company was featured as one of the Top 25 Black-Owned Businesses by The Atlanta Tribune: The Magazine.

A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Alicia earned her undergraduate degree in Liberal Studies from Reinhardt University. The institution also entrusted her as a member of its Board of Trustees, and she made history there in 2019 as the first African American to deliver the commencement address.

Additionally, she is a distinguished alumnus of Leadership Atlanta, one of the oldest sustained community leadership programs in the nation. Alicia is a business builder, thought leader and community servant who wholeheartedly believes in her family mantra, “God, family and business.” She has an undying love for the city of Atlanta, the place she believes is the best place in the entire globe. Her legacy is strong and she truly believes she has a legacy to keep and an image to uphold.