125: The Current State & Future For Black Investors w/ Mandy Bynum

<p><span style= "color: #000000;"><strong>Nam</strong><strong>e:</strong></span> <span style="font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">Mandy Bynum Mc Laughlin</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Business Name:</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">BLCK VC</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Current Title:</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">CEO</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Location:</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">San Francisco, CA</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Educational Background:</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Bucknell University</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>About Mandy: </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">Mandy Bynum Mc Laughlin Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BLCK VC since February 2022. Prior to becoming the CEO, she took part of BLCK VC’s apprenticeship and was a Black Venture Institute Fellow. She has an expert approach to fostering racial equity and inclusion, a background in enterprise sales leadership and experience serving as angel investor and limited partner for several women- and Black-led funds. Besides being the CEO for BLCK VC, Mandy is also the CEO and Co-Founder of Race Equ(al)ity Project, an organization that creates tools and content that empowers individuals and support organizations to make workplaces and cultures more equitable.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">She built her career in tech across numerous functions, including sales and operations. She has been a lifelong student of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as she has built her career in an industry where she was in the minority and sought to bring others up through her leadership. She is an avid supporter of nonprofits with a focus on marginalized student and employee groups. Mandy uses her business background to ground DE&I efforts and metrics in the understanding of how