When You Win, We All Win
Business can be tough. It’s even tougher when you don’t have many who fully identify with who you are. The Onyx Table unites those who have forged a path to the upper echelon of professional life but still have a drive for more. Your table mates are committed to your success because we rise and stand strong collectively.
I come up hard, baby, I had to fight; Took care of my business, wit' all my might.
I come up hard, I had to win; Then start all over, and win again.
- Marvin Gaye’s ‘Trouble Man’
Press Play… Born in Philadelphia, PA; raised in poverty by a single mother; educated in an urban public school system; Black.
Fast Forward… Earned a bachelor’s in computer science from the best computer-science school in the nation; earned a master’s degree from an Ivy League university; became the Chief Technology Officer of a publicly traded company; founded and led a technology company as CEO for 16 years; as CEO raised millions in investment capital, produced hyper-growth (INC 5000 Award recipient for 3 consecutive years) and engineered a successful sale of the company to a strategic buyer, becoming a rare exited tech founder; Blessed.
Statistically speaking, my story is improbable; yet quiet as it is kept, there are numerous stories like mine including many that are much more remarkable. But there still aren’t enough. The road to professional success in corporate leadership or entrepreneurship is rough, and I know my path would have been easier if I had meaningful access to peers, mentors and role models that I culturally identified with. So, my life mission is now to curate, cultivate, connect and celebrate these stories so under-represented and under-appreciated business champions don’t have to come up quite as hard as Marvin Gaye’s Trouble Man.
I hope you’ll join me to both enrich and be enriched by our collective professional powerbase.
-- Lee Jones, Chief Executive – The Onyx Table
Why Onyx?
Onyx is a precious stone that comes in a variety of colors and variations, but pure black onyx is rare, unique, valuable, not found in abundance - much like the CEO of color.
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