Kwame Jackson, Founder and Chairman of Legacy Holdings LLC - 2007 BBSA Conference Keynote Speaker Watch Video
Mr. Jackson is the founder and Chairman of Legacy Holdings LLC. Kwame was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Charlotte, NC. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from Harvard Business School. True to his entrepreneurial spirit and anxious to take advantage of the bounty of business opportunities in the late 90's, Kwame was a key participant in several "dot-com" start-ups during his tenure in business school.
His Fortune 500 corporate experience includes sales and marketing roles at Procter & Gamble and, most recently, on Wall Street as an investment manager for Goldman Sachs.
Kwame gained national notoriety and a large and diverse public following as a result of his performance in 2004 as one of 16 contestants chosen from 250,000 applicants to participate in the first season of the NBC hit reality television program 'The Apprentice'. Kwame finished as the runner up in the contest to become Donald Trump’s protégé for one year. Lynnette Khalfani, Personal Finance Expert and Author Watch Video
Lynnette Khalfani, The Money Coach, is a personal finance expert and the author of The Money Coach’s Guide to Your First Million (McGraw Hill; Sept 2006), Investing Success: How To Conquer 30 Costly Mistakes & Multiply Your Wealth! and the New York Times bestseller Zero Debt: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Freedom (Advantage World Press).
As an award-winning financial news journalist, Lynnette worked for nearly a decade as a Dow Jones Newswires reporter and a Wall Street Journal reporter for CNBC. At CNBC, Lynnette filed weekly television segments on personal finances, investing and small business, and conducted online chat sessions on CNBC.com.
Lynnette has interviewed thousands of financial experts, and personally paid off more than $100,000 in credit card debt before becoming a self-made millionaire. Now she shares the secrets to wealth with audiences nationwide, using insights based not just on her professional knowledge, but also on first-hand experience.
A popular keynote speaker, Lynnette also conducts workshops about credit and debt, money management, real estate, investing and entrepreneurship. Lynnette is a frequent guest on national TV and radio programs, and has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, Essence, and on Oprah, Dr. Phil, The Tyra Banks Show, The Rachael Ray Show, Tavis Smiley,as well as the Emmy award-winning reality program “Starting Over.”
When she’s not chasing after her three young kids, Lynnette is developing two PBS pledge specials, based around her books Zero Debt and The Money Coach’s Guide to Your First Million. She is also presently a Money Coach for AOL, where she dispenses her unique brand of personal finance wisdom. For more info about Lynnette as an AOL Money Coach, please visit http://coaches.aol.com/money/lynnette-khalfani/main.
To learn about Lynnette’s “Financial Boot Camp,” her financial coaching services, or to sign up for her free personal finance newsletter, please visit Lynnette’s website at http://www.TheMoneyCoach.net.
Lynnette’s history as a financial journalist and reporter spans more than 15 years. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of California, Irvine in 1991, and a Master of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California in 1993, Lynnette launched her career as a reporter for the Associated Press in Los Angeles.
She later worked as a correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer and as a writer/associate producer for Fox TV in Philadelphia before joining Dow Jones & Co. in 1994.
During her nine-year tenure at Dow Jones, Lynnette held several positions of increasing responsibility. She began as a reporter covering Wall Street, writing about the financial markets, high-profile executives in the securities industry, and mergers and acquisitions. Lynnette was later promoted to positions of senior writer and Philadelphia Bureau Chief, where she covered publicly-traded companies in southeast Pennsylvania, northern Delaware and southern New Jersey.
She also worked as a deputy managing editor, overseeing a staff of 22 reporters and editors, and directing coverage of the bond markets for Dow Jones Newswires. After serving as a Personal Finance Editor/Columnist for Dow Jones Newswires, Lynnette became a Wall Street Journal reporter for CNBC, a position she left in 2003.
Lynnette is a two-time winner of the Dow Jones International Newswires Award, resulting from her coverage of stock market fraud, and her trend pieces on Wall Street’s top players.
As a Money Coach, Lynnette continues to make financial literacy her top priority.
Quintin Primo III, Chairman and CEO, Capri Capital - 2007 BBSA Conference Keynote Speaker Watch Movie
Mr. Primo serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capri Capital Advisors, a real estate investment management firm headquartered in Chicago. The firm has over $2 billion in real estate assets currently under management, representing pension funds, governmental agencies and other institutional investors. He co-founded the firm in 1992 and also serves as Chairman of Capri Select Income, a real estate mezzanine investment fund.
Mr. Primo has over 20 years of experience in the real estate investment and capital markets. Prior to the formation of Capri Capital Advisors, he was Managing Director of Q. Primo & Company, Inc., a real estate investment banking firm established in 1988 specializing in foreign and domestic private placements. Prior to forming Q. Primo & Company, he was employed with Citicorp Real Estate, Inc. where he was Vice President and manager of the Chicago lending team and Regional Vice President of the real estate investment banking group.
Mr. Primo received a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance, with honors and high distinction, from Indiana University. He is a voting member of the Pension Real Estate Association and Urban Land Institute. Additionally, he is a board member of the Real Estate Roundtable, and a former trustee of AMLI Residential Properties Trust, a real estate investment trust traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
Mr. Primo is active in civic and charitable organizations. He is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Seventh District Advisory Council and The Economic Club of Chicago. He serves as a board trustee of the Chicago Community Trust, (Episcopal) Church Pension Group and the University of Chicago Hospitals. Additionally, he is Chairman of the Primo Center for Women and Children, a transitional shelter serving the homeless. Mr. Primo and his family reside in the Chicago area. Percy E. Sutton,
Co-Founder, Inner City Broadcasting and Synematics Inc.
Former Manhattan Borough President - 2007 BBSA Conference Keynote Speaker Watch Video
Percy Sutton is a civil rights activist, lawyer and entrepreneur.
Born in 1920 in San Antonio, Texas to educators and philanthropists Samuel J. Sutton and Lillian Smith, the young Sutton graduated from Phillis Wheatley High School, and then attended Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical College, Tuskegee Institute, and Hampton Institute. During World War II Sutton was initially rejected by the U.E. Army Air Corps because of his racial background. He eventually was able to enlist and became an intelligence officer with the 99 th Fighter Squadron, which was to become known as the legendary Tuskegee Airmen. Sutton served in the Italian and Mediterranean theaters of war, earning combat stars and the rank of captain.
Following the war, Sutton completed his education under the G.I. Bill and graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1950. He returned to military service during the Korean War and served as an intelligence officer and Judge Advocate in the U.S. Air Force until 1954. Upon his return to civilian life, Sutton opened a law firm in Harlem that specialized in civil rights cases and worked closely with the NAACP throughout the rest of the 1950’s. His firm represented such notable clients as Malcolm X and the Baptist Ministers Conference of New York.
In 1964 Mr. Sutton began the process of developing Inner City Broadcasting Corporation (ICBC) and became the lead-founder, developer, and principal shareholder and CEO of the 1972, New York incorporated Inner City Broadcasting Corporations – with radio stations and properties in Florida, Mississippi, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Texas.
In the Harlem Community, Mr. Sutton and his company, Inner City Broadcasting Corporation in 1981, with advice and counsel from Congressman Charles B. Rangel and others, rescued the World-Famous Apollo Theatre from its death-bed on Martin Luther King Blvd. (125 th Street), in Harlem and thus began the present-day redevelopment of the Harlem Community.
Mr Sutton’s most recent business venture is as co-founder and Chairman & CEO of Synematics, Inc., a high technology software/ hardware company whose core product, Envious TM is a multi-faceted, user and economically-friendly, real-time, cutting-edge technology, which, when integrated into wireless or wired network technologies, is capable of directing the monitoring, management, control and network performance measurement of communication networks of any length, content, size, speed, programming or protocol, without human intervention.
Mr. Sutton has been repeatedly described and honored as a visionary and was honored in 1986 by the NAACP with the Spingarn Medal (the NAACP’s highest honor). In this same year, Mr. Sutton was also a recipient of the universally-praised, Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the National Boy Scouts of America Court of Honor.
In 1987 Mr. Sutton became the first-recipient of the Lamplighter Award, from the National Black Leadership Forum.
Today, Mr. Sutton lives in Harlem with his wife Leatrice, as does his daughter Cheryl Sutton and her daughter Sierra Eileen Ellis Sutton and their grand daughter Keisha Sutton-James and her husband Michael and baby Nola, the first Sutton great grandchild.
