Leadership Award Dinner

Our annual Leadership Award Dinner, which takes place in the 1st half of the month of October, honors an outstanding senior business executive or public leader whose personal leadership furthers business opportunities for minority suppliers and encourages mutually beneficial economic links between minority enterprises and corporate members.

Event Photo Coverage from the 2007 Dinner
Click here to view photos from our most recent dinner in October 2007.

LEADERSHIP AWARD DINNER Friday, October 17, 2008

Our 2008 Honoree is... Earvin "Magic" Johnson Magic Johnson Enterprises Magic Johnson Foundation, Inc. For more information, including sponsorships and seats/tables for our 2009 event, please contact Shawn Smith via e-mail ssmith@scmbdc.org or call (213) 689-6960 x230.

• List of Past Recipients of the SCMBDC Leadership Award
  • 2007
    • Alfred E. Osborne, Jr.
      -Senior Associate Dean
      UCLA Anderson School of Management
      -Associate Professor of Global Economics
      & Management, Founder and Faculty Director
      Harold Price Center for Entrprepeurial Studies
  • 2006
    • Stephen F. Bollenbach
      Co-Chairman & Chief Executive Office
      Hilton Hotels Corporation
  • 2005
    • Robert A. Iger
      Chief Executive Officer
      The Walt Disney Company
  • 2004
    • Robert D. Pryor
      Chief Executive Officer
      Capgemini Energy LP
  • 2003
    • Richard Hartnack
      Vice Chairman, Community Banking & Investment Services Group
      Union Bank of California
  • 2001
    • Kenneth T. Lombard
      President - Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners
      President - Johnson Development Corporation
  • 2000
    • Stephen G. Welch
      President, Procurement
      SBC Operations, Inc.
  • 1999
    • Takahiro Moriguchi
      President & Chief Executive Officer
      Union Bank of California
  • 1998
    • David Coulter
      Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
      Bank of America Corporation
  • 1997
    • Koichi Amemiya
      President & Chief Executive Officer
      American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
  • 1996
    • Kent Kresa
      Chairman, President, & Chief Executive Officer
      Northrop Grumman Corporation
  • 1995
    • Leonard D. Schaeffer
      Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
      Blue Cross of California
  • 1993
    • Robert A. Best
      Group Vice President Senior Advisor
      Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
  • 1992
    • Warren I. Mitchell
      President
      The Gas Company
  • 1991
    • William C. Rusnack
      President
      ARCO Transportation Company
  • 1990
    • Edsel D. Dunford
      Executive Vice President & General Manager
      TRW Space & Defense Sector
• Click here to view a list of past award recipients prior to 1990

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