Dolly A. V. Christian
Virgis Colbert
Darwin Davis
Charles E. Lewis
George R. Lewis
A. Barry Rand
Black corporate pioneers honored at BPRC gala
WASHINGTON, D C. ? In
commemoration of Black History
Month, the? Business Policy
Review Council (BPRC), repre
senting African-American execu
tives of Fortune 500 companies,
honored six "pioneers" at its
annual Corporate Pioneers Gala
Tribute Feb. 4 at the Washington
Hilton Hotel in Washington. DC.
According to Benjamin S.
Ruffin, BPRC chair, "African
Americans who help break down
color barriers and were early and
current pioneers in corporate
America have most often
remained as unsung heroes and
heroines. We want to give them
public recognition and the special
honor due them. This is the main
goal and purpose of our
Corporate Pioneers Gala
Tribute." Honored this year by
BPRC were Dolly V. Christian,
who managed one of the premier
external programs for the IBM
Corporation; Virgis Colbert,
senior vice president of
Worldwide Operations for Miller
Brewing Company and the high
est-ranking African American of
the company; Darwin Davis, the
senior vice president for external
affairs of the Equitable Financial
Company; Charles E. Lewis, who
directed and initiated support to
countless community-action pro
grams on behalf of R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company; George R.
Lewis, vice president and treasur
er of Philip Morris Companies
Inc. and a member of the Board
of Trustees of Hampton
University; and A. Barry Rand,
executive vice president of
worldwide operations for Xerox
Corporation, who is responsible
for the management of all cus
tomer-related operations and $17
billion in revenue.
Operations for Xerox
Corporation who is responsible
for the management of all cus
tomer-related operations and $17
; billion in revenue.
Hilton Smith, BPRC chair
; elect, stated that a portion of the
; proceeds of the Gala Tribute will
go to the National Council of
; Negro Women and the Southern
; Christian Leadership Conference.
Chairman of the BPRC Gala
Planning Committee is LeBaron
Tavior. Senior vice president of
Sony Music Entertainment and
committee co-chairs include:
Toni Fay, Time-Warner; Leroy
Holmes. Jr., Duracell Inc.; Robert
Billingslea, Walt Disney
Company; Eugene McCullers,
The Coca-Cola Company: Mark
V. Monteverdi, AT&T; Hilton O.
Smith, Turner Construction
Company; and Adrienne Foster
Williams, Reebok Ltd.
A recent retiree of IBM,
Christian coordinated IBM's
executive loan program in which
IBM executives were loaned to
colleges, universities, community
organisations and non-profits.
The program enabled IBM
employees to use their business
expertise to enhance the effec
tiveness of the programs they
were assigned. Colbert, rising
through the corporate ranks of
Miller Brewing Company, was
appointed to the position Senior
Vice President, Worldwide
Operations by the company chair
f
man in August 1995.
Reporting to Colbert in his
position are the American
Specialty and Assurance,
Purchasing, and Corporate
Operations Planning and
Improvement. In addition, he is
on the Board of Directors of the
Boy Scouts of America and is a
board member for Columbia
Health Systems Inc. He is also a
life member of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People.
Davis' story at Equitable is
record-breaking by any measure
ment. In 1967, his first year with
the Equitable, he made the
Million Dollar Round Table, and
he made it again in 1968. In
1969, Davis became a district
manager and in 1970. he was in
the top ten of the Equitable's 960
managers, winning the National
Builder Trophy. In July 1971, he
was appointed Agency manager
in Detroit, Mich. During the peri
od from 1971 to 1974, he was
elected a full vice president and
head of the External Relations
Department. He currently serves
as senior vice president for the
Equitable and is listed as one of
America's 25 most important and
powerful black executives.
For more than 30 years
Charles Lewis assisted R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Company in
promoting its products.
Lauded from coast to coast
for his service on behalf of
African-American organizations,
he is especially proud of his near
ly 20-year participation in the
National Urban League's Black
Executive Exchange Program.
George Lewis was elected
vice president and treasurer of
Philip Morris Companies Inc. in
July 1984.
Philip Morris Companies Inc.
has five principal operating com
panies: Philip Morris U.S.A.,
Philip Morris International Inc.,
Kraft Foods Inc., Miller Brewing
Company and Philip Morris
Company, and Philip Morris
Capital Corporation. Lewis previ
ously served as vice president of
finance for the Seven-Up
Company. Before joining the
Seven-Up Company, Lewis was
vice president of financial and
planning, and treasurer of Philip
Morris Industrial, a position he
has held since January 1975.
Rand is recognized as one of
America's most outstanding
executives. Since joining Xerox
in 1968 as a trainee, he has risen
to the challenges of increasing i
responsibility within the corpora- \
tion. He currently serves as exec- '
utive vice president of worldwide
operations and is responsible for
$17 billion in revenue.
Rand has been a corporate
vice president and president of
Xerox's U.S. Marketing Group.
During his tenure as president,
the $6 billion, 35,000-employee
operation won several national
awards including "Best Sales
Force" and "Best Training
Organization in Corporate
America." "This is a stellar
group of honorees," said Smith.
"Each has withstood numerous
obstacles and has made a differ
ence in the lives of their commu
nities and in the mentoring of a |
younger generation. They also
ensured that their community was
the beneficiary of corporate phil
anthropy. The National Council
of Negro Women, founded by the
legendary Dr. Mary McLeod
Bethune and always in the fore
front of the fight to ensure that
African-American women have a
seat at the table, received a finan
cial contribution From B PRC at
the Gala. Dr. Dorothy Height
accepted on behalf of the NCNW.
The other beneficiary of
BPRC's Corporate Gala Tribute
was the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference.
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