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About MBNMain PageElbert E. McQuiller, President & CEO Elbert McQuiller, Co-Founder of My Black Networks, LLC, has over eleven years experience in Marketing and Sales within the financial services industry. Mr. McQuiller, early in his career, worked as a Brands Acquisition Manager for First USA Bank, a large national credit card issuer. In that role he was responsible for conducting customer acquisition direct mail campaigns that leveraged the First USA and Bank One brands. After First USA, Mr. McQuiller worked for MBNA America Bank, another large credit card issuer, in a variety of management roles in marketing and strategic planning. In one of his roles at MBNA, he was responsible for all direct marketing and account executive functions for several hundred "affinity relationship" credit card programs. Specifically, he managed the credit card programs of several historically black colleges and universities (e.g. Morehouse College), black greek letter organizations (e.g. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.), and black professional organizations (e.g. National Bar Association). In another role at MBNA, Mr. McQuiller spent a considerable amount of time researching and analyzing the Small Business credit market, and his research led to the ultimate decision by MBNA to acquire Sky Financial; a lending institution specializing in providing practice acquisition finance loans to preferred professionals (e.g. dentists). Mr. McQuiller also has experience developing marketing and credit response models designed to target small businesses. Mr. McQuiller currently works for Dell Financial Services in Austin, TX, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dell, Inc. Since joining Dell, Mr. McQuiller has held management positions in Marketing Analytics, Collections Strategy and Decision Science. Elbert McQuiller attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH where he pledged membership in Alpha Phi Alpha, Fraternity, Inc. Mr. McQuiller is currently a member of the Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association, The League (an organization of Black Ivy League alumni), Capital City Chamber of Commerce (Austin based Black chamber of commerce), the NAACP, the Urban League, Direct Marketers Association, and American Marketing Association. Malaika Omowale-McQuiller, Vice President & COO Malaika Omowale-McQuiller, Co-Founder of My Black Networks, LLC, has over ten years experience in health services and outcomes research, quantitative analysis and project management. Ms. McQuiller began her career as a Case Manager for the Wilmington Housing Authority where she used her background in behavioral psychology to design personal and career development training curriculums and family self-sufficiency programs. Ms. McQuiller went on to work for the Division of Public Health to develop and implement the state's first data evaluation system known as Delaware's Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System. As CODES Project Manager, Ms. McQuiller planned, organized and directed the collection, linkage and analysis of crash and injury data from several state and private agencies. Upon completion of the project, Ms. McQuiller went to work in Data Acquisition & Measurement for Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, DE. Ms. McQuiller currently works as a Clinical Quality & Patient Safety Project Manager for the Seton Family of Hospitals in Austin, TX. In her current role, Ms. McQuiller oversees a number of quality and patient safety initiatives across seven acute care and critical access hospitals. Her primary responsibilities involve developing and managing performance measurement systems, conducting outcomes analysis and cost-effectiveness studies, consulting on process re-design and change management, and leading performance improvement projects. Her research interests include minority health issues with special emphasis on racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare. Ms. McQuiller received a B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1995, an M.B.A from Wilmington College in 2003 and certification as a Project Management Professional from the Project Management Institute in 2008. The MBN Brand Promise MBN seeks to fill a service gap in the needs of its target markets. Current social media and networks targeting Blacks tend to focus primarily on casual topics such as entertainment, dating, celebrity news and gossip. Although MBN recognizes this market is satisfying a consumer demand, MBN chooses to respond to the reliable data that indicates Blacks, especially those in MBN's target markets, feel largely ignored by mainstream media. They are looking for online resources that are consistent with more "serious pursuits" such as business, finance and health information. Current media is often perceived as treating them as part of a monolithic community with a one-dimensional view of their lives. MBN promises to be a platform by which individual expression and identity can be fostered, and cultural commonalities can be reaffirmed. In fact, MBN believes that "individual consciousness begins with social connections. SM " For this reason, MBN adopts a Venn diagram as part of its logo to represent the "set theory" underlying each individual's personal identity and social interactions. MBN also adopts the motto "Expanding Your Networks, Empowering Our Community. SM " If individual expression, respect and advancement are the "quid" for My Black Networks' existence, the "pro quo" is a stronger, more empowered community that can and will benefit from organized cooperation in an increasingly interdependent world. A stronger community results in a greater capacity to support individuals and vice versa. |
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