Omar Muhammad is an entrepreneurship ecosystem builder working with entrepreneurs, small business owners, corporations, and government entities. Omar has been a Director (20 years) for an entrepreneurial center at Morgan State University. He has been actively involved in entrepreneurship since the age of 12, managed a small business loan fund, and conducted entrepreneurship training specific to women and formerly incarcerated individuals. He has been a business columnist with the Baltimore Business Journal and a business radio talk show host (22 years) for an NPR station at a historically Black College and University. Omar became the first African American board chair of the twenty-five-year organization, Technology Development Corporation of Maryland. Omar operates several businesses in various industries. He holds two degrees—Master's in Technology Entrepreneurship from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Morgan State University. Omar has four daughters and two granddaughters. His mantra for life is “improve and progress!”