Omar Muhammad is an entrepreneurship ecosystem builder working with entrepreneurs, small business owners, corporations, and government entities. Omar has been a Director (19 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 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. He also is on the advisory council for LaunchPad Program BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport and a member of the BWI Marshall Small & Minority Business Advisory Council (SMBAC).Omar operates several businesses in various industries including an entrepreneurial assistance and development platform and podcast host management company. He holds two degrees—Masters 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!”