Fritz-Earle Mc Lymont was an entrepreneurial development expert with more than 50 years of experience in developing and managing private, not-for-profit, and quasi-government enterprises in the United States and internationally. He was a co-founder of the National Minority Business Council, Inc., and the founder and managing partner of Mc Lymont, Kunda & Co., a New York-based international trade and business development strategies firm with clients and projects in the U.S., Africa, and the Caribbean.
Since the 1970s, Fritz has created innovative business-related programs and initiatives, utilizing small businesses and organizations in such diverse industries as 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. federal government commission on minority business.
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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. His awards and recognitions include Induction into the Concordia University Sports Hall of Fame; recipient of the Malcolm X Unity Award 2013; appointed Roving Ambassador for the Caribbean America Chamber of Commerce and Industry; and Wanadu-Aroo (Advisor) to Amiiru Songhoy, Paramount Chief; Bronx Frontier Development Corp. Order of the Pioneer Award. He served on the Boards of Directors of the Coffee Industries Ltd. in Jamaica; the Institute of African Affairs, USA; and as a Member of the University Council, Marcus Garvey Pan African University, Kampala, Uganda.
Among his career highlights, he started and operated a chemical specialty manufacturing company in New York that served the federal government, and industrial, institutional, and consumer markets. Technical competence earned the firm “favored supplier” status for chemical specialty products to the United States government and its innovative partnership with a major corporation earned its coverage in The Wall Street Journal; he developed a municipal bus transport system for Montego Bay, Jamaica, a major tourist destination city in the Caribbean; managed the Export Trading Company of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANY/NJ), representing more than 100 regional firms in global markets, and played a key role in reversing the Port Authority’s position on doing business in South Africa.
