Buying Corporations

Chief Procurement Officers, Supplier Diversity Directors, Strategic Sourcing and End-Users aim to have the best portfolio of suppliers that help them lower their Total Cost of Ownership.

As part of active supplier diversity initiatives, minority businesses are often beset with a number of challenges that preclude their ability to grow into larger enterprises capable of handling larger pieces of businesses. The problems are myriad, but chief amongst them are under-capitalization and an inability to access the right decision-makers.

The Capital Summit is designed to afford the best-in-class minority businesses an opportunity to engage with the right corporate decision-makers and be introduced to those available to help them with their capital needs, allowing them to grow into larger MBEs capable of handling larger pieces of your business. With your involvement, the cycle of under-capitalized, limited scale MBEs will be mitigated by matching your market-demand opportunities with MBE managerial expertise and capital, thus creating the Capacity Building System.

The corporations invited to attend this event have active Supplier Diversity initiatives. The Supplier Diversity Director is the point-person coordinating participation for their respective companies and have assigned corporate "delegates" to join them at the event.

If you are not part of a corporate delegation but would like to attend as an individual corporate participant interested in meeting best-in-class MBEs and investors, pending space availability, click here to request consideration to attend.







The Capital Summit 2008 is an invitation-only event. Invitations, once offered, are non-transferable and will expire if not accepted by the deadline. There are no written or expressed guarantees or obligations to do business between parties attending the Capital Summit 2008. All suppliers and investors must complete an application to be considered for invitation. Corporate delegates must be employees of a company considered to be a national or regional buying entity with an active supplier diversity initiative. delegates must be employees of a company considered to be a national or regional buying entity with an active supplier diversity initiative.