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The Black Enterprise Intelligent Performers are top CEOs and leading corporate executives who have used hard work, innovation, business savvy and a hunger for excellence to achieve wealth, influence and power. These business leaders have discovered and applied proven wisdom to achieve their success, principles you can practice to achieve your own business and professional goals.
In celebration of our 40th anniversary, Black Enterprise is taking a look both forward and backward at the world of black business. Follow us as we reveal our "40 Next: Emerging Business Leaders Who Are Shaping Our Future."
Led by CEO Suzanne Shank, Siebert Brandford Shank & Co. L.L.C. became Wall Street's fastest-growing public finance firm, earning the New York-based investment bank BE 100s Financial Services Company of the Year honors.
A year ago, I told you that our most recent economic downturn, one of the most devastating in decades, would swiftly and definitively separate the wheat from the chaff at all levels of industry, from global corporations to mom-and-pop shops to e-commerce ventures. I was right.
Our nation has officially been in a recession for roughly a year—one already characterized as the most brutal in decades. At press time, 10 million Americans were out of work—6.1% of whites, 11.2% of blacks. Moreover, the financial services and automotive sectors, to name two industries, require billions in taxpayer dollars to stay afloat. Yet in this midst of this strained economy, Black Enterprise has decided to spotlight the extraordinary achievements of a cadre of top professionals—our 100 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America.
