Our Co-Founder OutCaribe and Board Member of Jamaica Association of Diverse Businesses ( JADB) Ingrid Riley attended the final Certified Superstar of 2018 was hosted by Viacom New York recently. This was Viacom’s first time hosting the event for nglccNY. Looking out onto Broadway from the 31stfloor of its Times Square building, suppliers, guests, and Viacom judges and representatives sat in Viacom’s gorgeous amphitheater to learn from four nglccNY LGBTBEs who pitched their businesses.
In pitches that included high-end video presentations and chocolate samplings, Matt Skallerud of Pink Banana Media, Shana Scott and Amy Scott of mOdat Productions, James Wawrezewski of Ludlow6, and Ben Conard of Five North Chocolate educated us on their businesses, experiences, successes, and ideas of how Viacommight consider working with them. In exchange, they received critical feedback to assist them in fine-tuning and elevating their pitches which was also beneficial to those of us in the audience.
“I am glad I was invited and that I attended. Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment of Caribbean LGBTQ people is a passion of mine. So it was great that I could represent Jamaica Association of Diverse Businesses organisation and or brand OutCaribe,” Riley said.
| Special thanks go to Rose Hatcher, Viacom’sDirector, Supplier Diversity, for partnering with us and lining up an extraordinary panel of judges that included Chris Gallucci, SVP, Chief Sourcing Officer; Oliver Delgado, Sourcing Director (Research & Insights); Lisa Dass, Sourcing Director (Corporate & Facility Services); and Rachel Roca, Sourcing Director (Production & Events). After the four pitches, we were thrilled when Rose Hatcher announced that the judges were going to convene and select a winner who would be awarded a two-hour power lunch with Chris Gallucci to continue the mentoring experience. In the midst of the networking reception that followed the pitches, Chris caught us all off guard when he announced that the panel decided to award all four suppliers with power lunches! Each of the four LGBTBEs that pitched matched well with the four judges’ areas of sourcing and experience, making for a perfect fit to provide each one with the opportunity to continue the mentoring conversation. Congratulations to Pink Banana Media, mOdat Productions, Ludlow6, and Five North Chocolatefor jobs well done! |
