Dr. Johnny Graham is an award-winning entrepreneur and educator dedicated to helping entrepreneurs launch and scale their business ventures, as a means for increasing wealth and expanding community impact. Dr. Graham currently serves as the interim National Executive Director of the Howard University & PNC National Center for Entrepreneurship. The Center is a national consortium and leading resource hub for entrepreneurship education and programming at Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) around the country.
Since 2017, Dr. Graham has served as a Marketing professor at the Howard University School of Business where he has taught numerous courses including Principles of Marketing, Marketing Planning & Strategy, and Marketing Analytics. He also created and teaches the University’s Marketing for Startups course, which helps student entrepreneurs of all disciplines develop their business ideas, with an emphasis on capital readiness. Due to his commitment and impact in the classroom, Dr. Graham has received numerous recognitions from the Howard University School of Business including the “Howard Forward” award and “Excellence in Teaching” award, a distinction given to top-ranked professors for classroom instruction. At Howard, he also serves as the co-chair of HU Empower, an annual business pitch competition that provides student entrepreneurs with startup funding, and leads the Entrepreneurship Taskforce, a collection of faculty, staff, and student leaders throughout the university’s ecosystem.
In addition to his roles at Howard, Dr. Graham is the co-founder and board chairman of Our D.R.E.A.M. Foundation, a non-profit organization which provides entrepreneurship programming, mentorship, and startup funding to youth in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. He has also been the owner of several ventures himself including a marketing consulting firm and a corporate event production company, Follow the Groove Productions.
Dr. Graham received his PhD in Business Administration with a specialization in Marketing from Temple University. Prior to attending Temple, Dr. Graham graduated from the University of Maryland-College Park with a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and MBA with a specialization in Marketing and Strategy.
