Mentors will meet with you virtually to help you define and analyze your needs and challenges and work with you to develop solutions.
Below is an evolving and growing list of our BEA Mentors. Please read below for more information and contact bea@blackconnect.org with questions. If you would like to volunteer as a mentor, please complete the enrollment form. If you need legal advice or legal assistance please visit our Small Business Legal Services Program.
Note: The BEA Program is open to Entrepreneur, Small Business, or College Student members of Black Connect. If you are not a member, you may join at blackconnect.org/join
Meet Our Mentors!
The BEA is fueled by a team of entrepreneurs, business owners, professionals and executives from around the world with rich and wide ranging business backgrounds and areas of expertise. Our mentors volunteer their time to share their knowledge and experiences with the aim of helping Black Connect members minimize risks, avoid mistakes, and build sustainable businesses.
Leonides is a Product Development and Design Leader with global ecommerce and retail experience with a proven track record in the fashion business. Accomplished brand builder with speed-to-market expertise, capable of analyzing runway, market trends, customer research data and competition in order to deliver a customercentric approach to fashion design.
Karan has 10+ years of experience in Enterprise Technology Sales, Strategy, and Marketing and would love to help Tech or Non-Tech startups.
Delvin has two decades of experience working in sales and marketing, and helping re-structure businesses for profitability through partnering organizations with resources to take the next step in their evolutionary process.
Kiritu is the owner of retail-luxury nail salons and he has a master’s degree in education.
Kim is a results-driven tech marketing and operational leader with demonstrated success and a solid reputation for driving actionable, measurable programs that grow customers and revenue. Kim has domestic and international experience in strategy, planning, general management and all areas of marketing.
Peter is a highly motivated business and strategic planner with a proven track record of quantifiable results in the field of sales, marketing, merchandising, on premise promotions, and global account development. Peter has a dual MBA in Marketing and International Business for Marketing with over twenty five years’ experience in strategic marketing, sales development, sales training, logistic training, event planning, procurement development, implementation management and entrepreneurial business development to increase revenue and profitability.
Shannon has a MBA with a focus in Product Management and Entrepreneurship from Boston University. She is a start-up founder and a mentor for MIT’s global entrepreneurship program where executive leaders come from all around the world for one week to build startups.
Daisy has a M.S.Organizational Management and a Business Coaching Certificate. She currently owns a podcast and has previous experience in tech support, human resources and restaurant management.
Mawuli is the Founder and CEO of Tartplus, a decorative artifact manufacturing business enterprise. He is also the Founder and Manager of International Development Opportunity Initiative, a social enterprise that is into capacity building, training and mentoring of entrepreneurs and young graduates who want to build and or grow their own business or social enterprise. Mawuli holds Master of Arts Degree, Postgraduate Diploma in Governance and Advanced Executive Certificate in Project Management. Mawuli is an award winning entrepreneur from Tony Elumelu Foundation.
Christopher is a small business banker at Wells Fargo with over 100 clients in his book of business. Christopher enjoys helping his clients start their businesses and reach their financial goals. He helps his clients manage their cashflow and Christopher works hand in hand with other partners who help his clients grow their businesses.
Dwight is an accomplished interdisciplinary engineer and successful entrepreneur with over 18 years of technical, project management, business plan development & execution, intellectual property and product life cycle (concept to market) experience.
Mary graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with majors in Marketing and Management and minors in Leadership and Entrepreneurship. She has helped build and grow several businesses in addition to full time working in several corporations, including in the marketing technology space and programmatic advertising space.
Kevin Lau is a performance-driven, innovative and ROI-focused, customer marketing professional and digital/online marketing strategist with 11+ years of experience as an industry thought leader in customer advocacy, social media/digital advertising, event marketing, digital marketing and community management. His subject matter expertise encompasses managing the entire customer life cycle, formulating customer retention strategies, leveraging advocate marketing best practices, and data-driven decision making. He is the owner of Breakthrough Solutions, a digital marketing agency. In 2019, Kevin was the recipient of two awards from Influitive including Advocate Marketer of the Year and Best Advocate Marketing Program.