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A Message from Our CEO: ‘It’s Extraordinary Times’

As Black Enterprise continues its journey toward the 10th anniversary of the XCEL Summit for Men, we take a moment to hear an important message from CEO Earl “Butch” Graves, Jr.,.....

From the Streets to the C-Suites

At the 2025 XCEL Summit for Men, honoree John Hope Bryant, founder, chairman, and CEO of Operation Hope, rallied the audience to draw lessons from the past, using Frederick Douglas...

Solidcore’s Black CEO Still Champions Diversity For Fitness Company Despite Anti-DEI Wave

At the helm of leadership for the fitness studio company is Bryan Myers, who wants to make the business feel safe for all bodies.

As DEI backpedaling continues, Solidcore CEO wants it to be the ‘de facto landing spot for Black women’

Since he began leading the company in 2021, Bryan Myers has proven the business sense of leaning into a diverse

Famous Amos Continues The Legacy Of Founder Wally Amos With Initiative To Fund Black Entrepreneurs

Baby Boomer retirements are creating a massive wealth-transfer moment — and an unexpected opportunity for Black entrepreneurship.

Meet The Black Man Quietly Sitting At The Top Of The Luxury Watch World

A Black executive at luxury watchmaker Audemars Piguet represents legacy, power, and culture in an exclusive industry.

Robert F. Smith Talks ‘XCEL Summit For Men’ And The Unique Role Black People Play In Our Own Future

Robert F. Smith, founder, chairman, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, says each Black American has a role in the success of other Black people around the world. To Smith,...

Meet The Black Man Quietly Sitting At The Top Of The Luxury Watch World

A Black executive at luxury watchmaker Audemars Piguet represents legacy, power, and culture in an exclusive industry. The post Meet The Black Man Quietly Sitting At The Top Of The...

Meet The Black Man Quietly Sitting At The Top Of The Luxury Watch World

A Black executive at luxury watchmaker Audemars Piguet represents legacy, power, and culture in an exclusive industry. The post Meet The Black Man Quietly Sitting At The Top Of The...

SmartCommerce Appoints Gregory Taylor as Chief Executive Officer to Lead Its Next Era of Global Growth

Proven growth CEO and enterprise technology operator with a unicorn exit joins as SmartCommerce scales its commerce platform into a global brand and commerce intelligence engine fo...

BET Founder Robert L. Johnson To Receive XCEL Honors At BLACK ENTERPRISE’s 2026 XCEL Summit For Men

Black Enterprise announced this recognition this week ahead of the annual summit.

Meet Olivier Audemars, The Black Executive Shaping The Luxury Watch Industry

Luxury watches are known for being associated with wealth, exclusivity, and prestige. But amid growing conversations about Black representation in elite industries, one executive i...

White CEO Says Zohran Mamdani’s ‘Tax The Rich’ Slogan Is A ‘Racial Slur’ For The Wealthy

Steven Roth, CEO of real estate giant Vornado, and Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel LLC, are two of NYC's richest white men, and they feel oppressed.

If a company replaced its CEO with...: Indian-origin tech leader says he backtested billionaire Michael Milken's idea

Leasing Tech Helps Growing Black-Owned Businesses Find Success

Explore why leasing tech is a great choice for growing Black-owned businesses. See how it enhances innovation and reduces expenses. Start saving now!

Frederick Cortez Lee Jr: From East St. Louis to Multi-State Business Leadership

Frederick Cortez Lee Jr is an American entrepreneur and founder of Debt Elimination Group, Inc., a company he launched in 1998 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. His career has been...

It’s tough being a CEO, being ‘next’ can be worse

If I asked you to reel off a number of successful tech CEOs, you might start with some of the older names like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Michael Dell, although it’s...

Power Moves: Black Women Building Their Own Empires

Across boardrooms, startups, and global corporations, Black women are not just participating in business. They are leading it, reshaping it, and building legacies that create real...

Xerox Board of Directors Appoints Louie Pastor as Chief Executive Officer

Xerox Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: XRX) announced that Steve Bandrowczak will step down as Chief Executive Officer, and the Board of Directors has appointed Louie Pastor as Chief...

Elite group of American CEOs – outgoing Apple CEO Cook among them – join President Trump in China

President Donald Trump has assembled an elite group of CEOs — representing the pinnacle of American business — to join his high-stakes… The post Elite group of American CEOs – outg...

10 Black Celebrity Investors Driving the Cannabis Industry Forward

These figures are using their influence and capital to reshape a multibillion-dollar market through venture capital and premium cannabis brands, which were historically built on co...

Paperclip names new CEO, chief product officer

Hackensack-based Paperclip appoints Ron Alexander CEO and Amy Jeffryes as its first chief product officer to support AI and fintech growth. The post Paperclip names new CEO, chief...

This CEO pirated video games as a teen and became a hacker for the Air Force. Now he’s built a $3 billion cyber firm 

Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan bootstrapped his way from online hacker forums to a $3 billion valuation—without an Ivy League degree.

Diaspora Insurance CEO Madzingo steps up to Executive Chairman role

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Diaspora Insurance, Jeff Madzingo, has assumed the role of Executive Chairman in a leadership restructuring aimed at driving the company’s gl...