Black Enterprise Assigns New Roles to Senior Executives Dingle and Edmond

Nov. 17, 2014

Black Enterprise Assigns New Roles to Senior Executives Dingle and Edmond

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Derek Dingle
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Alfred Edmond Jr.

Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from Target Market News

(TriceEdneyWire.com) Black Enterprise President and CEO Earl "Butch" Graves Jr. has named Derek T. Dingle (left) and Alfred Edmond Jr. as Chief Content Officers, a new focus for the multi-platform media company launched 44 years ago by Founder Earl Graves Sr. as a single-magazine publishing company.

Dingle, Editor-in-Chief of Black Enterprise magazine, has been charged with leading content strategy for print and event properties of the company. He joins Edmond, named a chief content officer earlier this year and also a former editor-in-chief of Black Enterprise, who is now tasked with leading content strategy for Black Enterprise's digital and broadcast television properties, as well as the company's marketing efforts.

Both Edmond (left) and Dingle will retain their status as senior vice presidents and members of the Black Enterprise senior management team. Both Dingle and Edmond will report to CEO Butch Graves.

In addition to continuing to run Black Enterprise magazine, Dingle will lead content creation for an expanding roster of national and custom events, including the Women of Power Summit, the Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Summit, the Black Enterprise Golf & Tennis Challenge, the 20/20 Vision Forum series on supplier diversity, and the newly added American Black Film Festival and Baltimore African American Festival.

Edmond is responsible for content strategy for digital properties, including BlackEnterprise.com and Black Enterprise social media platforms, and for broadcast properties such as the Women of Power and Our World with Black Enterprise nationally syndicated television shows, as well as content marketing across platforms.

"As our live-events business continues to expand to become a true revenue driver for our company, and for the media business in general," said CEO Butch Graves, "it just makes sense to have proven leadership to ensure that we continue to create and produce best-of-class events to extend the reach and impact of the Black Enterprise Wealth for Life mission. Derek, who has provided leadership on content creation for our nationally recognized events, and Alfred, who's led the company's transformation from a print-centric to a digitally focused business, are ideally suited to partner as our chief leaders across all of our content platforms. Together, they bring more than 50 years combined as ambassadors of the Black Enterprise mission of economic empowerment and solution-oriented media for African Americans."