Charles Debow
Chief Client Relations Officer/Business Development
- Has 2 decades of extensive experience as a liaison to international businesses and governments Overseen project developments in North, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa
- Over the past 20 years he has gained extensive experience as the liaison to the National Black Chambers of Commerce ( NBCC) Global Federation of Chambers in North, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa.
- Currently serving as the Co-Chairman of Economic Opportunity of the U.S. State Department’s U.S. - Colombia Action Plan on Racial & Ethnic Equality (CAPREE)
- Directed policies, initiatives, advocacy for public policy concerns.
Mr. Charles H. DeBow, III is the Vice President of Programs & Business Development for the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC). Over the past 20 years he has gained extensive experience as the liaison to the NBCC Global Federation of Chambers in North, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa. The NBCC has evolved as a global advocate on behalf of Black businesses.
The National Black Chamber of Commerce® is dedicated to economically empowering, sustaining African American communities through entrepreneurship, capitalistic activity within the United States, and via interaction with the Black Diaspora. Mr. DeBow has focused work on the unconventional challenges confronting African American small businesses, its advocacy, and opportunities, along with the operational challenges of non-profit organizations.
Responsibilities include concept, implementation, administration, and management of programs.
He also directs policies, initiatives, advocacy for public policy concerns, and represents the NBCC periodically on congressional sub committees. Currently serving as the Co-Chairman of Economic Opportunity of the U.S. State Department’s U.S. - Colombia Action Plan on Racial & Ethnic Equality (CAPREE) - a program conceived to provide solutions for conflict resolution for the Colombian Civil War.
Charles H. DeBow, III is the son of one of the original Tuskegee Airman, Charles H. DeBow, Jr. He is a graduate of Indiana University’s Kelly School of Business. He has spent over 13 years in various capacities with CBS Records and 10 years as a marketing consultant developing campaigns for clients Michael Jackson, Prince, Janet Jackson, Sade, Earth, Wind & Fire, Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen, Luther Vandross, Teddy Pendergrass, and many more. The music industry experience provided a foundation for a legacy based on consumer marketing. Today the NBCC is developing solutions to support commerce in the Covid Economic Crisis for Black Small Businesses. We are striving for entrepreneurial diversity with infrastructure development, ITC, housing, energy, agri-business, cannabis, manufacturing, and natural resources with
emphasis on socially responsive and inclusive practices.
Mr. DeBow is presently overseeing project developments in Colombia, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Suriname, Jamaica, Ghana, Botswana, and Kenya