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Anthony A. Lewis
President - Verizon Washington, DC
Anthony A. Lewis is president of Verizon Washington, DC, a position he has held since March 1, 2004. Tony has oversight for all of Verizon's operations, including regulatory and financial matters in the nation's capital. Previously he held the title of executive director, business planning. His responsibilities included the coordination and linkage of strategic policy and initiatives affecting Verizon's business units and its regulatory organization.
Tony joined The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia, now Verizon Virginia in 1986 as a group manager in the operator services department. He has held a succession of positions with increasing responsibilities in product line management, traffic engineering and planning, sales, regulatory and public policy.
Tony is a member of the DC Chamber of Commerce's Governing Board and on the Board of Associates of Gallaudet University. Tony is also a member of the board of directors of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, the Workforce Investment Council, DC CAPS, the Washington Performing Arts Society, the Federal City Council, the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington, the United Way National Capital Area, the McLean Orchestra, and serves on the National Eagle Leadership Institute's Eagle Roundtable. Tony is also a conductor for the South Lakes High School spring musical production and is a percussionist with the Heritage Fellowship United Church of Christ Gospel Choir. Tony is past president and current member of the Developmental Roundtable for Upward Mobility (DRUM) and a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
Tony graduated from Elizabeth City State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in business in 1986, the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Leadership Development Program in 1996, the John Hopkins Leadership Development Program in 1996, and the Johns Hopkins University with a Master of Science degree in business administration in 1999.
Kwame Jackson
The Apprentice
Legacy Holdings LLC
Kwame Jackson is polished, confident and credentialed with prestigious Wall Street experience, a University of North Carolina Chapel Hill degree, a Harvard MBA, and business lessons he learned from Donald Trump in front of 22 million people each week, on the hit show "The Apprentice." His professional experience includes sales and marketing roles at Procter & Gamble and, most recently, on Wall Street as an Investment Manager for Goldman Sachs. It was his no nonsense attitude and ability to be a team leader that made him stand out on "The Apprentice" and it is his affable nature and street smarts that make him stand out in life.
Kwame regularly addresses executive management teams and aspiring interns at the world's leading companies on various topics such as team building, leadership, surviving and thriving corporate America and the importance of being an entrepreneur. It is his business savvy, passion for excellence and the lessons he has learned in the boardroom that have given him the ability to inspire others to explore, embrace, and execute the keys to success.
So the question remains; What job offer will Kwame Jackson take? A movie role, creating a new fashion line, or endorse a trendy consumer product? The answer is all; but under his own company, Legacy Holdings LLC. True to Kwame's entrepreneurial training at Harvard, Kwame has founded Legacy Holdings LLC, an emerging diversified holding company positioned to engage in real estate development, fashion, television and film production. Through Legacy Holdings LLC, Kwame aspires to create his own empire and while he beat out more than 250,000 contestants for a job working for Donald Trump, for Kwame, the real game has just begun.
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