“Recognizing Black Business Month” Speakers include Baltimore’s Own Ricky Smith, CEO of BWI-Marshall Airport

Mr. Smith holds an Accounting degree from Howard University and an Executive MBA from Loyola University in Maryland.  He is a graduate of several leadership programs, including the Greater Baltimore Committee and Leadership Cleveland.  He is active on several national and local boards and industry associations including the American Association of Airport Executives, the Washington Board of Trade, the BWI Business Partnership, World Trade Center Institute, AERO Club of Washington, Greater Baltimore Urban League, the Airport Minority Advisory Council, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, and the Morgan State University School of Communications Board of Advisors.

He has been recognized as a ‘Power 10 CEO’ by the Baltimore Business Journal (2018), ‘People Who Move America’  by the Boys Scouts of America (2018), ‘Thomas G. Newsome Founder’s  Leadership Award’  by the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (2018), ‘Influential Marylander’ by The Daily Record (2017), and the Maryland Washington Minority Companies Association ‘Black History Hero’ award (2017).

Mr. Smith served as Chair of the Mayor’s Commission on African American Males and President of Black Professional Men, Inc.