Leadership Team
GPA's Leadership Team
We are proud to support our customers, business partners and communities with our vision to promote trade and economic development for Georgia and the Southeast region. Our business activities are guided by our values: Safety, Integrity, Respect, Community, Creativity and Opportunity.
We get tremendous support from our Georgia Ports Authority Board of Directors, the Georgia Legislature and Governor Brian Kemp to ensure Georgia Ports plays an important role in ensuring supply chain competitiveness.
We appreciate the support we get from our customers – the ocean carriers, the importers and exporters, and our partners in the trucking industry, the warehousing and logistics industry and the communities we serve.
With over 40 ships a week calling the Port of Savannah and 15 ships a week calling the Port of Brunswick, our gateway ports are economic engines, creating 651,000 full and part-time jobs which is 12% of Georgia’s employment. They create $174 billion in sales which is 11% of Georgia’s total sales. Georgia Ports contributes $10 billion in federal taxes, $3 billion in state tax revenues and $3 billion in local tax revenues.
Griffith V. Lynch
Georgia Ports Authority CEO
Griff Lynch serves as CEO of the Georgia Ports Authority, an 1,800-person strong state authority which owns and operates strategic port terminals serving American commerce.
In this role, Lynch oversees the nation’s third-busiest gateway for containerized trade in Savannah, and the number-one-busiest auto port complex in the nation, in Brunswick.
Together, these form one of the largest economic engines in the Southeastern United States.
Before being named President and CEO in 2016, Lynch served as the GPA’s Chief Operating Officer for five years. A proven leader in the maritime industry, he brings more than 38 years of operational and commercial experience to the Georgia Ports Authority team.
GPA’s CEO transition plan calls for President Kevin Price to take on the President and CEO role on August 1, 2027, when Lynch will retire.
Kevin Price
Georgia Ports Authority President
Kevin Price was appointed President of the Georgia Ports Authority on July 1, 2026, reporting to CEO Griff Lynch.
GPA’s transition plan calls for Price to take on the President and CEO role on August 1, 2027, when Lynch will retire after a 38-year maritime career, including fifteen years with Georgia Ports Authority.
Price brings more than 30 years’ operations experience to Georgia Ports.
He served as President of Gateway Terminals in Savannah from 2021 until joining GPA, with prior experience as Chief Operating Officer of Virginia International Terminals, along with multiple leadership roles in the port terminal industry.
He has served on numerous boards and committees during his career and is a 2026 graduate of The Executive Program at Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.
Georgia Ports is the nation’s third-busiest gateway for containerized trade in Savannah, and the number-one-busiest auto port complex in the nation, in Brunswick. Together, these form one of the largest economic engines in the Southeastern United States.
