Black corporate executives

Richard “Dick” Parsons is considered one of the top business executives of his era. One of his many prominent posts includes being the first Black CEO of a major non-minority owned lending institution. The Brooklyn native was born April 4, 1948. Parsons grew up in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood and was a stellar student who graduated […]

Rosalind Brewer must be used to shattering barriers, doing so again last week when Starbucks named her its latest COO. She becomes the coffee giant’s first woman and Black person to hold the post. Brewer, a native of Detroit, Michigan, attended Spelman College, earning a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. She then entered the Wharton School […]