Fritz-Earle Mc Lymont

Fritz-Earle Mc Lymont is a seasoned entrepreneur with more than 40 years’ experience in developing and managing private, not-for-profit and quasi-government enterprises in the United States and overseas. He is the founder and current managing partner of Mc Lymont, Kunda & Co., a New York-based international trade and business development consulting firm with clients in the U.S., Africa and the Caribbean. He is a co-founder of the National Minority Business Council, Inc. (NMBC), a 42-year-old U.S. non-profit dedicated to the growth and sustainability of small, minority and women-owned enterprises, and currently heads its international operation. He recently assumed the role of CEO for a Caribbean based renewable energy firm that is targeting the African and Caribbean markets.

Since the 1970s, Fritz has created innovative business-related programs and initiatives, utilizing small businesses and organizations in such diverse industries as the chemical, transportation, agriculture, energy and media. He has developed and implemented award-winning education and training programs for small businesses in the U.S. and Caribbean and has served on numerous boards in the private and not-for-profit sectors, as well as on a key U.S. government commission on minority business. His business interests and activities are currently focused in the U.S., African, Asian and Caribbean markets. He writes and lectures on entrepreneurship and international business.

Fritz conducted his undergraduate studies in business at Sir. George Williams University (now Concordia University) in Montreal, Canada, and graduate studies in Community Economic Development at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Relevant Experience (Development):
• Started and operated a chemical specialty manufacturing company in New York that served the federal government, industrial, institutional and consumer markets. Technical competence earned the firm favored-supplier status for chemical specialty products to the U.S. government. Its innovative partnership with a major corporation earned it coverage in The Wall Street Journal.
• Developed a municipal bus transport system for Montego Bay, Jamaica, a major tourist destination city in the Caribbean. Responsibilities included staff recruitment, training, design and implementation of preventive maintenance systems, and the design and construction of a maintenance depot. Handled negotiations with Leyland Motors of the U.K on behalf of the government of Jamaica for the establishment of a bus assembly plant in Jamaica.
• Managed the Export Trading Company of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANY/NJ), representing over 100 regional firms in global markets. Played a key role in reversing the Port Authority’s position on doing business in South Africa, which led to a visit by the organization’s senior executives, including myself, to South Africa in March 1994 and the subsequent establishment of a PANY/NJ office in Johannesburg in 1996.
• Developed and conducted for six years a series of investment and trade missions from the U.S. to the Caribbean, Central America and Africa for small and mid-sized firms. Participants also included major international companies; U.S. government agencies such as the Overseas Private Investment Corp., EXIM Bank and the Department of Commerce; regional development banks; small business owners; commercial banks and host government agencies.
• Consultant to a commercial bee farming enterprise in the Caribbean, producing honey and by-products such as pollen, sauces and wine. Responsibilities include hands-on role in product development, production and marketing. Supported the creation of an apiculture laboratory to scientifically enhance the rearing of queen bees and overall production.
• Consultant/Manager for a not-for-profit entity that developed a commercial composting operation in the Bronx borough of New York City. Responsibilities included organization development and financing, and the design and installation of a packaging plant for potting soil made from the composted material.
• Participation in federal government activities include serving on a Presidential Minority Business Commission on International Trade; testified to the U.S. International Trade Commission investigating exporting by small businesses; collaboration with the Department of Energy on Technology Transfer with minority businesses.
• Recognitions include induction into the Concordia University Sports Hall of Fame; recipient of the Malcolm X Unity Award 2013; Roving Ambassador for the Caribbean America Chamber of Commerce and Industry; (Advisor) Wanadu-Aroo to Amiiru Songhoy, Paramount Chief.