Tinubu appoints Yar'Adua's ex-adviser as DG Budget Office

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David Baker Lewis currently serves as Of Counsel at Lewis & Munday, a Detroitbased legal firm with offices in New York City and

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Johnson, Robert Louis (1946 - )

Robert Louis Johnson, founder, chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Black Entertainment Television (BET), is also the majority owner of the Charlotte (North Carolina) Bobcats of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the first African American billionaire. He was born in

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Jerry Sue Thornton

Jerry Sue Thornton is the Chief Executive Officer of Dream Catcher Educational Consulting. In this role, Thornton heads a firm that provides coaching and professional development for newly selected college and university

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Ursula M. Burns

Ursula M. Burns was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Xerox, the global leader in business process and document management. Xerox has more than 140,000 employees serving clients in 160

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Matthew Carter

Matthew Carter, Jr. is President & Chief Executive Officer of Inteliquent, a leading provider of wholesale voice services for carriers and service providers. Prior to his current position, Carter served in various leadership roles at Sprint. From 2010 until November 2014, Carter served as

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Kenneth I. Chenault

Kenneth I. Chenault is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for American Express, an American multinational financial services company providing customers with access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success. Chenault joined American Express in 1981 and was

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Mark Mason

Mark Mason is Chief Financial Officer of the Institutional Clients Group (ICG) for Citigroup. Mason served as CEO of Citi Private Bank until he was promoted into his current position. Prior to that, he served as the chief executive officer of Citi Holdings and as chief financial officer and head of

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Gerald B. Smith

Gerald B. Smith is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Smith, Graham & Co. Investment Advisors, L.P. In this role, Smith leads an independent employee-owned investment advisory firm that specializes in providing fixed income and equity portfolio strategies to institutional clients. Prior to

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Adams, R. Miller

R. Miller Adams focuses his efforts on the private equity component of Triad Capital Partners. Miller started his career practicing law in a downtown Seattle firm focusing on business, sports, and entertainment law and early stage technology companies. He then spent a decade as a senior executive

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Leslie Hale

Leslie Hale is Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President for RLJ Lodging Trust. In this role, Hale is responsible for all financial matters across RLJ and is intricately involved in the company’s major decisions including investments, daily operations and long term strategic

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Sidney A. Ribeau

Sidney A. Ribeau was President of Howard University. Before Howard University, Ribeau served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Bowling Green State University. Ribeau joined Bowling Green in

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Robert C. Davidson

Robert C. Davidson, Jr. was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Surface Protection Industries, a paint and specialty coatings manufacturing company he founded in 1978. Under Davidson’s leadership, the company grew to become the largest African- American-owned manufacturing company in

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NAACP Elects Kweisi Mfume

Kweisi Mfume is unanimously elected President and CEO of the NAACP.

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Dorothy A. Terrell

Dorothy A. Terrell is Founder and Managing Partner of FirstCap Advisors, a venture capital and advisory services firm that helps innovative technology companies successfully navigate the critical early stages of product and business

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Pierre E. Leroy

Pierre E. Leroy was President of both the Worldwide Construction & Forestry Division and the Global Parts Division at Deere & Company. At Deere, Leroy served in numerous financial positions such as Director of Finance for Europe, Africa and the Middle East; Vice President and

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Reginald F. Lewis

Lewis was born on this day in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1968. He was a partner in Murphy, Thorpe & Lewis, the first Black law firm on Wall Street. In 1989 he became president and CEO of TLC Beatrice International Holding Inc. With TLCs leverage

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Eddie N. Moore, Jr.

Eddie N. Moore, Jr. is President and Chief Executive Officer at Norfolk State University. Prior to his appointment as President of Norfolk State University, he served as President of St. Paul’s College in Lawrenceville, VA (2011-2012) and Virginia State University in Petersburg, VA

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Dwayne A. Wilson

Dwayne A. Wilson is a former Senior Vice President of Fluor Corporation. In this role, he reported to the Chairman and CEO on key initiatives of strategic importance to the corporation. Previously, Wilson served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC

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Debora A. Plunkett

Debora A. Plunkett is Chief Executive Officer at Plunkett Associates LLC, where she also provides consultation on cybersecurity, information assurance and management

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Paula A. Sneed

Paula A. Sneed is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Phelps Prescott Group, LLC. In this role, Sneed leads Phelps Prescott’s work as a strategy and management consulting

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Jonathan Mariner

Jonathan Mariner served as Chief Investment Officer (CIO) for Major League Baseball (MLB). In this role, Mariner oversaw approximately $2 billion in combined league-wide pension assets and MLB’s strategic investment fund. He also served as President of BASES, the league’s captive insurance

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Leslie, Lisa Deshaun (1972- )

Lisa Deshaun Leslie is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Los Angeles Sparks in the Women’s Basketball Association (WNBA) for her twelve-year career from 1997 to 2009. She is a two-time WNBA champion, three-time WNBA MVP, and a four-time Olympic gold medal

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Eric Leon Holoman

Eric Holoman is the Operating Partner of Magic Johnson Enterprises and oversees the company’s day-to-day operations of its largest portfolio companies including President and CEO of EquiTrust, a $18 billion dollar life and annuity business, Managing Partner of JLC Infrastructure and Managing

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Michele J. Hooper

Michele J. Hooper is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Director’s Council, an organization that consults with major companies to improve the effectiveness of their corporate governance. Previously, Hooper served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Voyager Expanded Learning and of

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K. David Boyer

K. David Boyer, Jr. is Chief Executive Officer of GlobalWatch Technologies, Inc. In this role, Boyer heads a leading cyber security, business intelligence consulting, and software engineering firm in the Washington, D.C. area. Previously, Boyer served as a presidential appointee to the

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Benjamin, Regina Marcia (1956– )

Dr. Regina Marcia Benjamin, President Barack Obama’s nominee for Surgeon General of the United States, is an accomplished physician whose professional and personal roots are planted deeply in rural America. Dr. Benjamin was nominated for the post by the President on July 13, 2009 and unanimously

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O’dell M. Owens, M.D.

O’dell M. Owens, M.D. is Medical Director for the City of Cincinnati. Previously, Owens was the President of Cincinnati State as well as holding many healthcare related leadership roles including serving as Medical Director for a major insurance company. Owens also helped launch a Cincinnati-based

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Pascal Desroches

Pascal Desroches is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Turner Broadcasting, a Time Warner

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