Mandla Ngcongwane, Founder & Creative Director, executive leadership of Black Brain Pictures, and Paul Nelson, CEO of Global Impact Industries Consortium had a moment of strategic engagement and integration of Columbia Diaspora delegation with the Pan African Council, led by Relebohile Phoofolo, Public Policy.  Together they welcomed dignitaries Jorge Zorro, Minister of Culture of Colombia […]

On February 15, 2023 Consortium partner Ekos Akpokabayen, Chief Investment Officer of Ovid Capitavisits Charlotte, NC to conduct site visits and met with the National Institute of EconomicDevelopment to discuss bringing in Foreign Direct Investment from Africa to create opportunity andbridge U.S. ties with and Africa Growth Agenda.

How to close the Wealth Gap for People of African Descent from a global perspective? Transformation of wealth is occurring vastly throughout the country, but not respectively with the people of African descent.  Covid-19 heightened the realization of the African Diaspora and systemic legacy challenges of what is occurring on a global market scale within the United States, regionally, locally and abroad. According […]

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, the African diaspora can play an important role in driving growth on the continent. The diaspora can provide much-needed investment capital, knowledge, and skills to help African businesses and entrepreneurs grow their businesses. In addition, the diaspora can be a powerful force for promoting trade and investment between Africa […]

Leadership and ethics are two of the most important aspects of running a successful business. Leaders set the tone for their organizations, and strong ethical values help to ensure that employees act in accordance with the company’s goals and values. Leadership is important because it provides direction and vision for the company. Leaders need to […]

The International Institute of African Scholars launched there conference at Johnson C. Smith University and Kimberly Nelson, President had the opportunity to facilitate the program session and pertinent meetings with House Rep. John Autry, Investor Relations with Charlotte Regional Business Alliances to discuss boosting international development with Sub Saharan Africa, driving FDI, import and export […]

On the agenda, Paul Nelson, CEO attended the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly in NY to facilitate a high-level investment meeting session he made possible between His Excellency and President of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio and Julius Mwale, a Kenya billionaire who develop Mwale Medical and Technology City (MMTC). Mr. Mwale expressed […]

“Private Equity has to build the businesses, industries, and structures that other forms of capital will invest in” Ekos Akpokabayen. Africa is made up of 54 countries and accounts for 16.7% of the global population, in recent years more money has been moving into Africa to finance its technological development, however, it still accounts for […]

The visit to Fourah Bey College on January 5, 2020 Kimberly Nelson, President met with NemataBlyden, Author of African Americas & Africa and had the opportunity to exchange with students in a dialogue leadership engagement session. From this book launching we recruited 3 mentees andsponsored a student to complete Microsoft Certification training program and was […]