“Hanif Omar, is a business professional, historian, professor, and entrepreneur with over two decades of owning and leading complex organizations, building strategic business alliances and developing

successful business models. Currently, Mr. Omar manages The Omar Group, LLC, a business and finance consulting firm operating in North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. He is also the managing partner of Co-Mar NIL Advisors, a full-service sports agency, and professor of Entrepreneurship at Shaw University (Raleigh, NC) in the School of Business and Professional Studies.

Moreover, Mr. Omar is a former Senior Investment Analyst with Mission Driven Finance and former Director of Commercial Lending for Piedmont Business Capital. Prior to that, he was the director of Shaw University’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center.”