WBEC-East Honors Advocate of the Year: Ajamu Johnson of Comcast NBCUniversal during Annual Awards

PHILADELPHIA - Oct. 10, 2019 - PRLog -- Ajamu Johnson

As Vice President of Procurement for Comcast and NBCUniversal, Ajamu leads an enterprise-wide team responsible for all supplier inclusion activities at one of the world's leading providers of media and entertainment.  His group is responsible for establishing corporate policy, strategy, and objectives that ensure maximum utilization of qualified diverse businesses in the contracting process.

During 2015, after consecutive years of economic impact growth, Comcast became the first media and technology company to be inducted into the prestigious Billion Dollar Roundtable. From 2008 to 2013, Mr. Johnson led vendor diversity and inclusion activities for Comcast's cable division. In 2010, he worked closely with the executive team to establish an unprecedented series of diversity and inclusion-related voluntary public commitments in connection with the successful completion of Comcast's acquisition of NBCUniversal.

The Advocate of the Year honor is awarded to an employee of a WBEC-East corporate or government member who has done the most to promote business opportunities for WBENC-certified Women Business Enterprises.

Women's Business Enterprise Center – East (WBEC-East) is a regional partner of the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the largest certifier of women-owned business.  WBEC-East fosters the development and retention of successful businesses by delivering resources that enable individuals to start new and grow existing businesses.

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