Kase Lawal is a Nigerian-born entrepreneur and Chairman of the largest African-American owned businesses in the United States. He was born in 1954 in the ancient city of Ibadan (a city 100 miles northwest of Lagos) wherefrom he immigrated to the United States in the early 1970s. He attended Fort Valley State University in Georgia, before transferring to Texas Southern University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering. He also holds an MBA in finance and marketing from Prairie View A&M University. Kase started out his career in Dresser Industries (now Halliburton) as a research chemist and later as a chemical engineer with Shell Oil Refining Co. He moved on to Suncrest Investment Corporation and afterwards Baker Investments before starting CAMAC Holdings, which began operations as an agriculture and commodities company.
Kase Lawal is presently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CAMAC International Corporation and also the Chairman of Allied Energy Corporation. He serves as a member of the board of directors in Unity National Bank, the only federally insured and licensed African-American-owned bank in Texas. Dr. Lawal is the Vice Chairman of the Port of Houston Authority, the largest foreign tonnage port in the United States and Houston Airport Development System Corporation, the sixth largest international airport system in the world. In 1994, he was a finalist for the United States Business Entrepreneur of the Year and also served on the President of the United States Business Advisory Council.
He was recently awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy from Fort Valley State University.
Kase Lawal is presently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CAMAC International Corporation and also the Chairman of Allied Energy Corporation. He serves as a member of the board of directors in Unity National Bank, the only federally insured and licensed African-American-owned bank in Texas. Dr. Lawal is the Vice Chairman of the Port of Houston Authority, the largest foreign tonnage port in the United States and Houston Airport Development System Corporation, the sixth largest international airport system in the world. In 1994, he was a finalist for the United States Business Entrepreneur of the Year and also served on the President of the United States Business Advisory Council.
He was recently awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy from Fort Valley State University.
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I sometimes wonder why the most talented and successful, humble, honest, and respected Nigerians live abroad.
Dear Friend,
Thanks for having invited my attention to this beautiful magazine.
May I share my two ideas about this. Please try to transcend the national boundaries. It is good to be a Nigerian or for that matter any national. It is the best to be a global citizen. When you address your energies to the Universal harmony and Global Peace, the Nigerial interests are better taken care of.
Secondly, the black background is thematically good, I agree but from the point of view of readability, it is not so good. Kindly consider means of improving the readability.
Kindly contribute your ideas to Dynamic Youth magazine also, as we are very much concerned with the Black Diaspora and their progress.
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Once again thanking you for the communication,
With kind regards,
K S Venkataraman
Associate Editor
Dynamic Youth online magazine
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