2009 Press Releases
Ronald N. Langston featured speaker at Business Development Seminar
March 28, 2009
Ronald N. Langston, Principal at Langston Global Enterprises, and former National Director of the Minority Business Development Agency, Washington, D.C., will be featured as the luncheon guest speaker at the Seventh Annual Business Education Development Seminar to be held at the Hilton Hotel on Tuesday, March 31. Mr. Langston will address the topic “The Global Economic Threat/The Global Economic Opportunity!”
The one day event is being jointly sponsored by the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce, the U.S. Embassy and The Bahamas Development Bank. The opening session will officially begin with welcome remarks by Chamber President Dionisio D’Agular, Chairman of the Bahamas Development Bank Darren Cash, and U.S. Embassy Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. Timothy Zúñiga-Brown. Phlip Simon, Executive Director of Chamber will moderate the event. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and welcome remarks will begin at 9:10 a.m.
“A major focus this year will center on providing business persons with much needed information, tools and tips on how to make their businesses recession proof. The seminar will also seek to offer business persons much needed advice on sound and practical ways in which they can survive financially despite the global economic meltdown,” said Philip Simon, Executive Director of the Chamber. As in previous years, the Business Education and Development Seminar will feature informative presentations and panel discussions from some of the country’s leading and most informed business and financial experts.
Ronald Langston was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the National Director of the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) in March 2001 and served in the position until January 2009. He is the first individual to hold the title National Director and is the longest serving Director in the history of the Agency. He directed the MBDA through a reorganization and transformation from a bureaucratic and administrative agency to an entrepreneurial organization focused on synchronization, alignment and flawless execution of clearly defined metrics leading to results. The MBDA team conceived and executed the agency’s central theme of empowerment through entrepreneurship on the belief a national business enterprise model will serve as the catalyst to foster the growth, and capacity among the U.S. minority business enterprises. In 2008, MBDA was recognized as one of the top three agencies in the U.S. Department of Commerce and received the highest ranking in leadership.
Upon leaving government service, Langston established Langston Global Enterprises, (LGE), LLC, an entrepreneurial and business innovations consulting firm to assist business entrepreneurs in obtaining entrepreneurial and innovation opportunities in the public and private sectors domestically and globally. LGE focuses on business-to-business relations between U.S. businesses and the strategic pursuit of business relationships between Small and Medium Enterprises in Africa and Caribbean nations though the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the Millennium Challenge Accounts and U.S. Free Trade Agreements.
Mr. Langston is the recipient of numerous awards and citations. He holds degrees from the University of Iowa, City University of New York, and Harvard University. He is married to Inga P. Bumbary, Esq. of