NewMe Accelerator's Hank Williams Launches New Venture, Platform

Serial tech entrepreneur Hank Williams announced yesterday his newest venture, Platform , a not-for-profit organization he founded with the Tides Center and several unnamed technologists, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists who are dedicated to increasing the participation and success of underrepresented minorities in the innovation economy. The launch event was hosted at the home of celebrated business…

Serial tech entrepreneur Hank Williams announced yesterday his newest venture, Platform , a not-for-profit organization he founded with the Tides Center and several unnamed technologists, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists who are dedicated to increasing the participation and success of underrepresented minorities in the innovation economy. The launch event was hosted at the home of celebrated business women and philanthropists Loida Lewis and her daughter Christina Lewis Halpern, who run theΒ Reginald F. Lewis Foundation, which is dedicated to the memory of the first black man to head a billion dollar business empire.

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