Natalie Madeira Cofield - Chairwoman
Dr. Milton L. Cofield - Co-Chair
Milton L. Cofield is currently the Executive Director for Undergraduate Business Administration at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and a professor of global business and international management at the university. He comes to this position from his prior posts as an appointed Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Graduate Institute of Technology and Innovation Management at National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan and Fulbright American Studies Professor at De LaSalle University at Manila in the Philippines. He formerly served as the head of the Imaging Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management program at Rochester Institute of Technology where he held the James E. McGhee Distinguished Professorship.
He is a graduate of Southern University with a B.S degree in Chemistry, magna cum laude; he holds an M.B.A degree in Finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania; and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Illinois.
He began his career as a physical scientist in the research laboratories of the Eastman Kodak Company.
Cabral Thornton, MBA - Treasurer
Mr. Cabral Thornton has over eight years of strategic management, business development, corporate due-diligence, capital acquisition, and business education experience. He focuses primarily on the film & entertainment, real estate, retail, and technology sectors. His business education experience includes serving as an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Business, Mathematics, and Computer Science at Atlanta Metropolitan College and a MBA Admissions Consultant with Manhattan Review. Prior to business education and strategy consulting, Cabral spent four years as the chief executive of MenuMeals.com and two years with KPMG, LLP as a Senior Associate in the Risk and Advisory Services practice. While at KPMG, Cabral focused on information system security, corporate divestitures/ acquisitions, and real estate disposition strategies for both private and federal government entities. Mr. Thornton also worked as a Project Manager in the Commercial Real Estate Development Group for Forest City Ratner and Diamond Property Development Group respectively.
He holds a BS in Systems Engineering from The University of Virginia and a MBA in Finance & Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Yuvay Meyers
Dr. Yuvay Jeanine Meyers received her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin. She earned an M.A. from American University and a B.B.A. in International Business Marketing from Howard University. Her research interests focus on multicultural consumer behavior. Most recently, her work has included studies on the effect that African American skin color of models has on the reception of advertisement. Before starting graduate work, Yuvay spent some time working in the Advertising industry for clients such as BellSouth, Chase, and The American Red Cross. She joined the faculty at Howard University's School of Business as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Marketing Fall of 2008.
H. Marrel Foushee
H. Marrel Foushee started his career with an internship at the National Bureau of Standards in 1974. After completing his M.A., Foushee went to work at Public Technology, Inc., as the assistant to the director, where he liased with federal authorities as part of its Urban Consortium Program. In1978, he founded Foushee's Tax and Financial Management Services, where he remains president. He has also spent significant time working for federal and local governments, serving with the Department of Energy as a program analyst and with the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. From 1984 to 1987, he served as chief of the Washington, D.C. Office of Paternity and Child Support, and from 1989 to 1991 as an executive assistant and acting administrator in the D.C. Youth Services Administration. The mayor of Washington, D.C., appointed Foushee to the Department of Public Works as administrator of facilities management, where he served from 1996 to 1997.
Foushee has also been active in the media, working as an on-air personality for WHUR, the Howard University radio station, offering tax advice for thirteen years between 1982 and 1995. He expanded out to WDCU in 1992, producing and hosting Business Digest for three years. Foushee expanded his own personal business in 1997, opening Foushee's Business Management Services, where he is managing partner.
Over his career, Foushee has received many awards, including the Outstanding Professional of Washington, D.C., in 1987 and a Presidential Citation from the D.C. Chamber of Commerce. He has also been listed in Who's Who in Black Corporate America. He serves on the board of the Howard University Small Business Development Center and on the Metropolitan Baptist Church Foundation. He is also a founder of the National Forum for Black Public Administrators and was the first president of the Black M.B.A. Association of Washington, D.C.
