Daryl Williams
CEO, Urban Entrepreneur Partnership Inc. (UEP)
"The noted African-American scholar and inventor George Washington Carver left us these wise words that translate well to our work here at the Urban Entrepreneurial Partnership. ‘Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.’ At the UEP, we encourage our clients to unleash their imaginations, create opportunities, reinvent the market and rebuild their communities."
Daryl Williams is the CEO/executive director of the Urban Entrepreneur Partnership Inc. (UEP). Under Williams’ leadership the UEP has expanded to an $7M organization with offices in Kansas City, Missouri, New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Hammond, Louisiana, and Detroit, Michigan.
Williams is also the director of research and policy for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, in that role, he is responsible for all programs, initiatives and research that advance minority entrepreneurship.
A national authority on minority entrepreneurship, Mr. Williams has participated as a member of numerous national panels, including: “New Market Tax Credit,” presented by the Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C.; “Bringing Minority Social Entrepreneurs and Corporate/Foundation Resources Together,” presented by The White House National Conference on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives; and others presented by the White House National Economic Council.
Mr. Williams holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sociology from the University of Kansas and has also begun doctoral work in the field. He has worked as an associate with the Kauffman Foundation since November 1999.
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