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Today, City Capital Corporation named Ephren W. Taylor as the new CEO. At 23 years of age, this appointment marks Taylor as the youngest African-American CEO of a public company. In April, City Capital Corporation acquired the ECC Vine Street Real Estate Acquisitions, LLC (ECC Jazz) in Kansas City’s Jazz District. There, Taylor served as CEO and Chairman of ECC Jazz. At the age of 12, Taylor’s first company designed 3-D computer games. And during his second business venture, he created a job search portal for teens and college students called GoFerretGo, reaching a street value of $3.2 million. In 2002, Taylor was recognized as Kansas Young Entrepreneur of the year by the Kansas Department of Commerce for his investment strategies. Taylor developed ECC Jazz from concepts he originally developed to assist churches with their investment and funding needs. Taylor defines ECC Jazz as “empowering communities with socially-conscious economic development” and said, “We create true win-win-win developments, and even share profits from the venture and other benefits with the community itself…Instead of telling a city what we want to build and what kinds of incentives we expect, we ask them to tell us their long-range goals, for revitalization and community-building. Then we partner with them—utilizing every available incentive to literally create our own market.” He also noted that CCCN will strengthen the legacy, commenting, “Cities nationwide approach us to partner with them on local redevelopment initiatives. City Capital provides key elements to allow us to acquire and expedite more projects into additional markets, which is right in line with our current business plan.”
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Black technology entrepreneurs are increasingly providing the horsepower that drives the global economy. Over the last two decades, black entrepreneurs have created more jobs, and contributed much more to the economic expansion of the Black community as a whole, than any black pastor or politician. Black entrepreneurs are taking risks and building businesses that generate economic growth and increase prosperity in underserved areas, as more minority-owned and minority-focused businesses emerge, willing to serve the financial needs of Black entrepreneurs. US Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine's annual list of Top Black Technology Entrepreneurs reflects the expanding scope of leading Black entrepreneurs in information technology, homeland security, and defense.
