1. The Ideal Trade &
Investment Partnership between
the United States & Africa
Investors Forum
5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. | August 6, 2014
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Cambria Suites Washington DC
Convention Center | 899 O St NW,
Washington, DC 20001
PROUDLY PRESENTS

2. Michael A. Bing, serves as the Director of the
Washington, DC Minority Business Center (DC MBC).
The DC MBC provides technical assistance focused
on, but not limited to, Capture Management, Business
Development, Key Relationship Leverage, Assistance with
Procurement and Contracts, Access to Capital, Proposal
Development, Third Party Business Assessments and Post-
Award Consulting to ethnically Minority Small and Medium
Enterprises primarily in the Washington metropolitan area
(DC–VA–MD–WV metropolitan statistical area).
The DC MBDA Business Center is one of forty-five centers
funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority
Business Development Agency (MBDA) nationwide. In 2013,
the DC Center was able to assist clients in securing over
$1.3Billion in contracts and $17Million in financing.
Prior to joining the National Community Reinvestment
Coalition Mr. Bing was the Director of The Enterprise Center
Capital Corporation (TEC-CC), a 501(c)(3) certified Communi-
ty Development Financial Institution (CDFI), Community
Development Entity (CDE) and U.S. Small Business Adminis
tration Micro Loan Intermediary. Mr. Bing managed the loan
fund and administered all internal financial services, loan
packaging, financial capacity assessments, and technical
assistance for TEC-CC.
Prior to TEC-CC, Mr. Bing served as the Business Develop-
ment Manager for The Enterprise Center’s Pennsylvania
Minority Business Enterprise Center (PAMBEC) a federal-
ly-funded program of the Minority Business Development
Agency U.S. Department of Commerce. Here, Mr. Bing
focused on recruiting high-growth minority companies (with
minimum sales of $250,000/yearly) as clients to provide ac-
cess to contracts and capital. While working with PAMBEC,
the center generated $86 Million in procurement and capital
for clients in 2007.
Mr. Bing attended Chestnut Hill College and is a certi-
fied instructor of the National Foundation of Teaching
Entrepreneurship and Kauffman Foundation’s FastTrac.
Mr. Bing is passionate about helping people achieve their
dreams—a believer in what can be achieved and the power
of potential.
PROGRAM OF EVENTS
Welcome
MICHAEL BING, Director of the MBDA D.C. Center
U.S. & Africa Investment Outlook
SHARON WALKER, CEO & President, Morgenthau Stirling
Doing Business in Africa
H.E. SINDISO NGWENYA, Secretary General, COMESA
Keynote Address
Investment Opportunities in Namibia
HON. CALLE SCHLETTWEIN, Minister of Trade & Industry
PLEASE NOTE THAT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED THROUGHOUT

3. The Honorable
CALLE SCHLETTWEIN
Minister of Trade & Industry
2012 - Present
His Excellency
SINDISO N. NGWENYA
Secretary General of
COMESA
SHARON R. WALKER
Chief Executive Officer of
Morgenthau Stirling, LLC
Hon. Calle Schlettwein is the current
Minister of Trade and Industry of the
Republic of Namibia. In this post since
2012, Hon. Schlettwein was a member
of the Namibian parliament from 2010,
and also served, between 2010 - 2012, as
Deputy Minister of Finance.
Between 2003 and 2010, he was Permanent
Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, and he
also served, between 1996 and 2003 as Per-
manent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour.
In the period 1993 - 1996, Hon. Schlettwein
was Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of
Youth and Sport, and also served, for a short
period as Permanent Secretary in Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development.
Between 1991 and 1992, he was Permanent
Secretary of the Ministry of Fisheries and
Marine Resources.
Between 1990 and 1991, he was appointed as
the 1st Permanent Secretary in the Ministry
of Agriculture, Water, Fisheries and Rural
Development in the Independent Republic
of Namibia.
Earlier, 1985 - 1989, he served as the Head
of the Research Section in the Department
of Water Affairs, Namibia and before that,
for a 5 year period, he was employed by the
Department of Water Affairs, Namibia as
Researcher for biological weed control.
Education.
Hon. Schlettwein went to the University of
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Zoology
and Botany, and a Master of Science degree
in Entomology, University of Stellenbosch,
South Africa.
Mr. Sindiso Ngwenya is the third
Secretary-General of the Common Market
for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
since it was transformed from the PTA in
1994. He brings with him over 27 years of
service in industry, regional and multilateral
levels covering the public sector, private
sector and quasi-government institutions.
He has been involved in the design and
implementation of programs and projects
in the road, airline and railway sectors. At
the regional level, he was instrumental in
the formulation of the PTA (now COMESA)
regional integration programs culminating in
the launch of the COMESA Free Trade Area
on October 31st, 2000.
He also worked on the establishment of
COMESA specialized institutions, such as the
Eastern and Southern Africa Trade and Devel-
opment Bank (PTA Bank), the COMESA
Clearing House and the PTA Re-Insurance
Company (ZEP-RE).
More recently, he played a key role in the
design of the COMESA Customs Union and
Common Investment Area. He was also part
of the team that crafted the COMESA Treaty
and oversaw the transformation of the PTA
into COMESA in 1994.
Before his appointment, Mr. Ngwenya was
the Assistant Secretary General of COMESA
in charge of Programmes, a position he held
for ten years. In this position, he was respon-
sible for overseeing the development and
implementation of COMESA programmes.
In addition, he oversaw and supervised
the operations of COMESA established
institutions such as the Leather and Leather
Product Institute (LLPI), the Clearing House
and the Regional Investment Agency.
Sharon Reed Walker holds an
MBA from the Ross School of Business at the
University of Michigan, and founded the firm
after a successful 35-year corporate career,
which included tenured leadership assign-
ments with Bristol-Myers Squibb, DuPont,
Scott Paper and Soft Sheen Products, Inc.
Ms. Walker’s experience is enhanced by glob-
al perspectives,having conducted business
in over 30 countries in North and South
America, Asia, Europe and Africa.
Today she serves on several boards including:
Deaconess Health System, Old National Bank
Evansville Region, and she is also President,
Board of Trustees for the Evansville Museum
of Arts, History and Science, and Treasurer,
Board of Opportunities Industrialization
Centers International, (OICI