Black Owned Businesses & Resources
Have you thought finding diverse Speakers, Authors, Professional Service Providers & Financial Services Technology (FinTech) Providers was a challenge?
Meet our Network of Professionals!
Keynote Speakers & Authors
Marsha Haygood -
Dr. Joe Johnson -
Randy Cox -
Linda Clemons - Sales & Body Language Expert
Dr. Candice Cooper-Lovett - Licensed Marriage & Family Counselor | Sex Therapist
Robyn Hatcher - Talk is Cheap: Communication is Priceless
Sarano Kelly - Author, Speaker, Trainer, Coach
Elijah A. Oliver, Sr. MS - Take F.L.Y.G.H.T. | Experience Maximum Altitude
Dr. Aerial M. Ellis - Organizational Leadership Transformation
Kia Jarmon - Community, Culture, Crisis & Communication Expert
Kim Farmer - Health, Fitness & Wellness Expert
Dr. Robert Quarles - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Expert
Stoney Coleman - Create Your Lifestyle!
Michael Jordan, CFP, CIMA - Mojo Momentum
Marlōn Hall, CFS - Speak On Purpose: Deliver Your Message Precisely & Effectively
Professional Service Providers
DFD Partners - Diverse Asset Management Consultants
Financial Mastery Consultants - Financial Literacy Consulting
DUO Kreative - Event Planning Specialists
Prepared Careers, LLC - Talent Acquisition
Banks, Finley, White & Co. - Certified Public Accountants
Aaron Wells - Wells Family Photo
Monique Arrington - Information Technology Recruiting
Liberty Bank - Banking & Lending
Practice Management Consulting, LLC - Management Consulting
FinTech Companies & Executives
Tedla Mekonnen, Founder & CEO – EveryIncome
EveryIncome helps you take control of your financial health with personalized, guided financial education and management through our unique system of tools, information, and recommendations covering all kinds of life events and personal finance needs.
Email: tmekonnen@everyincome.com
Office: 571.370.5400
Tanya Van Court, Founder & CEO – goalsetter
Goalsetter offers FDIC & Mastercard-backed debit cards for teens and savings accounts for the whole family. Save simply by setting goals and getting your whole network involved in helping you reach them.
Email: dana@goalsetter.co
Dr. Roshawnna Novellus, CEO – EnrichHer
EnrichHer partners with corporate impact funds, foundations, and individual funders to connect companies led by women and founders of capital to capital, coaching, and community.
Office: 404.721.0216
Rodney Williams, Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer – LISNR
LISNR powers transactions & connects the online to the offline customer journey globally, with sound based technology that sends micro-communications to a variety of devices quickly and easily, allowing data to be transmitted and decoded by speakers and microphones.
Email: rodney@lisnr.com, eric@lisnr.com
Derrius Quarles, Co-Founder & CEO – BREAUX Capital
BREAUX Capital is a Black owned community & financial services company dedicated to Black Men who help each other improve their financial health.
Email: ras@derriusquarles.com, dq@milliondollarscholar.com
Office: 216.712.9600
Nate Washington, Co-Founder & CTO – Qoins
Nate and co-founder Christian Zimmerman launched Qoins to allow users to use their spare change to help pay off their debts faster. Qoins has taken a strong stance in supporting Black people in the global movement for social justice.
Moses Onitilo, Co-Founder & CTO – Jamborow
Jamborow is Africa’s first B2B AI & Blockchain driven fintech platform focused on financial inclusion and grassroots empowerment. Jamborow is a Financial Services Technology platform providing white label solutions (SaaS) which offer access to financial services for informal, unbanked and underbanked sectors across Africa, in order to promote economic and financial inclusion.
Office: 832.855.8808
Kiley Summers, Founder – spendebt
SpenDebt is a financial services technology company providing a micropayment debt solution which helps to progressively payoff debt through every day purchases. The more consumers spend, the faster their debts are paid off.
Email: kiley.summers@spendebt.com
Wole Coaxum, Founder – MoCaFi
Mobility Capital Finance, Inc. (MoCaFi) is a financial services technology company that is building a trusted brand that provides underbanked individuals and small business owners with a platform to share ideas, learn best practices and access responsible products for a healthy financial lifestyle.
Sheena Allen, Founder & CEO – CAPWAY
CapWay is a fintech startup providing financial access, opportunities and resources through digital banking to the financially underserved and overlooked--including the unbanked, underbanked, working poor and those fed up with the traditional banking system.
Fonta Gilliam, Founder & CEO – Invest Sou Sou
Fonta Gilliam launched Invest Sou Sou after working for over ten years as a diplomat for the United States government in East Asia and Africa and as a Management Consultant for Deloitte's Emerging Markets Practice.
Email: info@investsousou.com
Office: 202.796.4240
Marcus Cobb, Co-Founder & CEO – Jammber
Jammber is a distributed payment platform for the music & entertainment industries and online marketplaces allowing teams to easily share royalties or sales with each other.
Contact: https://twitter.com/jammberceo
Office: 844.526.6237
Viola Llewellyn, CEO – OVAMBA
The systems & processes that the teams in Cameroon, USA, Ivory Coast and India have created are deeply rooted in a desire to create wealth and a thriving business ecosystem for Emerging Market Small & Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs), especially the under-served and unbanked informal businesses for whom traditional finance is not attainable or suitable.
Email: admin@ovamba.com
Office: 202.390.2165
Tope Awotona, Founder – calendly
Calendly is an app for scheduling appointments, meetings and events. Its goal is to eliminate the problematic back-and-forth when trying to nail down times. Rather than email chains and phone tag, you can send your availability with a Calendly link.
William Bailey, CEO – RAPIER SOLUTIONS, INC.
Rapier's core businesses include information technology outsourcing, system integration and consulting. They take on the tough projects that many government agencies and industries simply don't have the in-house expertise to perform.
Email: bbailey@rapiersolutions.com
Mobile: 980.521.7208
Dawn Dickson, Founder & CEO – PopCom
PopCom equips entrepreneurs & brands with future-ready retail solutions that facilitate rapid retail expansion, incredible customer experiences and powerful sales data integration.
Martin Ijaha, Co-Founder & CEO – neyber
Neyber is an award-winning financial wellbeing provider that helps UK employees be better with their money. They work with employers to support financial wellbeing in the workplace via access to affordable, salary-deducted loans, a range of savings & investment solutions, and access to financial education.
Email: sales@neyber.co.uk
Gene Waddy, Co-Founder & CEO – D1VERSANT
Diversant is a certified minority business enterprise and is ranked as one of the Top 25 IT staffing firms in the United States. They operate 13 office locations and count over than 1,300 IT professionals supporting clients across the nation. Their service offerings include Temporary Staffing, Contract to Hire and Direct Hire.
Email: rcoda@diversant.com
Office: 732.222.1250
Harold Hughes, Founder & CEO – BANDWAGON
Bandwagon is a venture-backed identity infrastructure company that helps its customers transparently manage, aggregate and store valuable consumer identity data.
Email: harold@bandwagonfanclub.com
Office: 844.687.3267