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Catalyst Network Foundation Inc. Presents:
 
“Position of Power” Featuring Donahue Peebles + Thomas A. Moorehead
 
Two of the top 15 Wealthiest African Americans and self-made entrepreneurs discussing Entrepreneurship + Economic Mobility + Paying it Forward
 
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2018
 
Venue: The Park @ 14th
Address: 920 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20005
Time: 6:00 - 9:00pm
 
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Corporate Sponsor: City First Bank + Industrial Bank
 
Panelist

R. Donahue Peebles
Founder + CEO | Best Selling Author
The Peebles Corporation

R. Donahue Peebles is a real estate entrepreneur, author, and political activist. Peebles is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of the Peebles Corporation, a development company of luxury hotels, high-rise residential and commercial properties in New York CityWashington, D.C., Boston, PhiladelphiaLas VegasSan Francisco, and Miami Beach. Peebles owns 100% of The Peebles Corporation. In April 2015, Black Enterprise named Peebles as one of the "Business Trailblazers and Titans of Black America: 40 most powerful African Americans in business".
 
The company is the largest black-owned real estate company in the nation and has become an industry leader with a portfolio of completed and current developments totaling more than 7 million square feet and $6 billion in major cities including New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Charlotte, and Miami.
 
In May 2009, Forbes listed Peebles in the top ten of the wealthiest black Americans, and in January 2015 it estimated his net worth to be over $700 million. 
 
Forbes article:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2015/01/27/successful-african-american-real-estate-mogul-inches-closer-to-billionaire-status/2/#7ddd78101c23 

 
Thomas A. Moorhead
Founder + CEO
Sterling Motorcars
 
Thomas A. Moorehead founded The Joyce & Thomas Morehead Foundation with his wife. The foundation has provided more than $2,500,000 in charitable assistance HBCUs, to working families and non-profit organizations in northern Virginia and greater Washington, D.C.  Joyce, an attorney and Thomas Moorehead, a 26 year veteran of the automotive industry, own BMW of Sterling, the largest African American owned BMW franchise in the nation, MINI of Sterling and Rolls Royce Motor Cars Sterling.
 
Thomas also owns several hotel properties located throughout the nation.  Thomas, as owner of BMW of Sterling and MINI of Sterling, was recognized by Black Enterprise magazine as its 2007 Automobile Dealer of the Year.
 
Laurel Djoukeng | Executive Director | www.Catalyst-Network.org

Email: LDjoukeng@Catalyst-Network.org | Direct: 240-472-6256
 
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