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Case Study in Black Entrepreneurship: The Entrepreneur is the Business. Thu 7p-9:30p  Copyright © 2006, Drew University |
Biographies
(website) Douglas C. Freeman is the founder of VirtCom Enterprises (“VirtCom”), a strategy management consultancy focused on the philosophy and implementation of socially responsible diversity practices and profit generation around the globe. With headquarters based in New York City and offices scheduled for London England in 2006, VirtCom collaborates with senior executives in the private and public sectors, which are committed to realizing socially responsible and economically valuable diversity outcomes. While this approach is typically described as “doing well by doing good,” VirtCom actually describes its approach to diversity as the “Double-Bottom Line.” VirtCom promotes the practice of diversity profit generation via 5 primary initiatives:
VirtCom’s global clients range from Visa to Johnson Controls in the private sector, and NASA to the City of London in the public sector. Mr. Freeman’s professional development has spanned from investment banking and strategy consulting, to business-to-business Internet technology. Prior to founding VirtCom, he served as the Head of North American Business Development and Operations for Mondus.com, New York, a B2B Internet company founded by two Rhodes Scholars. Mondus raised nearly $170M before its eventual sale to Siatte Paginne, a European media company. Mr. Freeman has also served as a senior associate for Deloitte Consulting and as an investment banker at JP Morgan Chase in the Restructuring group. Mr. Freeman is actively involved in a range of philanthropic and community affairs both domestically and internationally. While in graduate school, he co-founded the Leadership America Program, a volunteer based training program. Currently, Mr. Freeman serves on the US Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency MED Week committee in Washington DC, is a member of the Chicago Sinfonietta National Advisory Board and is the Chairman of the US friends of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Freeman is also the founder of the World Diversity Leadership Summit, in Prague, Czech Republic. The Summit is the world’s leading gathering of Fortune 1000 business leaders, government officials and community leaders to address global diversity challenges. Mr. Freeman holds a Master in Public Policy focused on International Trade and Finance from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and a BA from the University of California at Berkeley.
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