Atlanta Business League Hall of Fame Recipient Andrella Kenner Soars to New Heights With CI2 Aviation Inc.
Ms. Andrella Kenner is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of CI2 Aviation Inc., an award-winning Aerospace, Engineering, and Information Technology provider, delivering a full range of aviation, technology, management, and administrative support services to a global audience of public and private agencies.
Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Atlanta, GA, with multiple offices throughout the U.S., CI2 Aviation is the nation’s only minority-owned, woman-owned business engaged in the provisioning of Air Traffic Control Tower services to the Federal Government. Kenner has over 38 years of comprehensive senior level management experience in Finance, Marketing, Sales, and Information Technology. She has continued to maintain the same steadfast work ethic which has contributed to CI2 Aviation’s continued success as an Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP).
Since 1997 CI2 Aviation has managed and operated Airport Traffic Control Towers in support of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Federal Contract Tower Program (FCT) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U. S. Military- supporting weather reconnaissance and Coast Guard operations. CI2 Aviation is currently responsible for 22 Airport Air Traffic Control Towers at airports in the United States, Puerto Rico, and U.S.
Virgin Islands. To date, CI2 Aviation’s most outstanding accomplishment has been and continues to be over 45 million aircraft operations over 25 years with no fatalities due to controller error.
Under Kenner’s leadership, CI2 Aviation’s excellent work ethic and commitment to integrity have led to numerous accolades, and resulted in groundbreaking successes for the company’s clients, teaming partners and employees. CI2 Aviation has garnered multiple industry respected awards in an array of categories within the Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) and is a Pilot’s Choice award winner for multiple years.
In 2020, CI2 Aviation was recognized as one of the top three businesses in the state of Georgia in the Sustainable Business category with the Cox Family Business Enterprise. Kenner has also received countless individual awards and honors. In 2021, she was inducted into the Atlanta
Business League’s Hall of Fame and was a recipient of an AMAC Catalyst Award.
In 2022, Kenner was the proud recipient of the AMAC Chairman’s Award, the ATCA Annual Outstanding Achievement Award for Small Business, and the AAAE (USCTA) Leadership Award. Most recently, Ms. Kenner was selected by the Atlanta Business League as one of “Atlanta’s Top 100 Black Women of Influence”.
Other awards and honors include:
*White House Expert Panelist for The Women in Transportation Initiative
*National Black Coalition of FAA Employees “Bessie Coleman” Award
*Conference of Minority Transportation Officials “Women Who Move the Nation” Honoree
*Delta Sigma Theta Sorority “Trailblazers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)
Kenner also led CI2 Aviation as part of a team on a 19 -year contract to support the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) IFMS Data center. The IT team built and maintained a secure IFMS data center that supports the FAA’s Telecommunications Infrastructure program office.
In addition she is the chair-elect of the Board for the Atlanta Business League. She also serves on the Board for the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau. She is a Policy Board Member for American Association of Airport Executives/ United States Contract Tower Association.
The affable avaiation experts is a Board member for the Airport Minority Advisory Council Foundation (AMAC). She is a corporate committee voting member with the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE). She is also a member of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO), a member of the Airport Minority Advisory Council (AMAC), and a member of the Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA), and is also
a former member of the DeKalb County Pension Board.
Kenner is a huge proponent on bringing awareness to and encouraging women to enter industries that are male dominated. As a woman owned business in a male dominated arena, Ms. Kenner is involved in an array of committees and events that bring together a community of women entrepreneurs and leaders, to provide leadership development opportunities, and strategic partnerships to propel women business owners
and leaders in male dominated genres into greater economic, social, and political spheres of power.
Ms. Kenner, a native of Nashville, TN, is a proud graduate of Tennessee State University where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree. While at TSU, she pledged the Alpha Chi chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Ms. Kenner earned her Master of Business Administration (MBA) Finance from Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois.