Nigerian businessman, Adebayo Ogunlesi has joined a long list of multi-billionaires appointed by U.S President-elect, Donald Trump, to be on the Economic Advisory team.
According to multiple reports, in Trump’s bid to “make America great again,” a total of 16 multi-billionaires with investments and businesses scattered across the United States of America have been appointed to advise the President-elect on how to steer the economy to greater heights.
While Ogunlesi, an Ondo State-born and an Oxford and Harvard graduate, remains the only coloured individual on the team, it totally changes the perception of Trump on blacks.
Ogunlesi, is the CEO and Founder of multi-billionn dollar company Global Infrastructure Partners.
Other members of the Economic Advisory Team include:
Stephen Schwarzman (forum chairman), chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone
Paul Atkins, CEO of Patomak Global Partners, former commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Mary Barra, chairwoman and CEO, General Motors
Toby Cosgrove, CEO, Cleveland Clinic
Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Larry Fink, chairman and CEO, BlackRock
Bob Iger, chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company
Rich Lesser, president and CEO, Boston Consulting Group
Doug McMillon, president and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Jim McNerney, former chairman, president, and CEO of Boeing
Ginni Rometty, chairwoman, president, and CEO of IBM
Kevin Warsh, Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in economics at the Hoover Institute, former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Mark Weinberger, global chairman and CEO, EY
Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO, General Electric
Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize winner, vice chairman of IHS Markit
