Business
Pan African Entrepreneurs Conference to be hosted in Houston
(PRNewswire-USNewswire) — The Pan African Entrepreneurs Conference (PAEC) takes place November 15-18, 2012, in Houston, TX at the Four Seasons Hotel. PAEC is an arena for entrepreneurs and business people within the Black Diaspora to meet and further business connections.
This is the newly formed international division of the National Black Chamber of Commerce.
The project strategies of the Pan African Entrepreneurs Conference are to promote, help develop and expose procurement opportunities for entrepreneurs. These opportunities will include infrastructure, energy, water management, agri-business, telecommunications, fashion, matchmaking, logistics, transportation, healthcare, environmental management, bidding/tender/RFP management, education facilities, fishing industry, rare minerals.
Representatives of businesses from Equatorial Guinea, Suriname, Nigeria, Cameroon, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, France, Zambia, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa will be in attendance. There will be ample time to network and have face-to-face meetings to explore opportunities and synergies.
Fashion is a huge industry all around the world. We are honored that J. Alexander Martin, a co-founder of the urban brand FUBU which grossed an average of US$6 Billion in revenue, will share his knowledge and experiences in the glamour industries of fashion and beauty.
The Pan African Entrepreneurs Conference endeavors to provide alternative sources of investment.
Prosper Adabla, CEO of New Capital Holdings in Ghana, offers insight into non-traditional avenues to capital access. While Wanda Felton, First Vice President of the Import- Export Bank of the United States will present on the bank’s Africa Initiative.
