TBWT’s Management Team

Our multi-cultural team has worked together on many projects over the last twenty years, and has a demonstrated synergy of their many gifts and talents and a positive chemistry to their personalities and work styles. The team consists of nine men and women who in total have well over 120 years of experience in journalism, publishing, multi-media development, financial management and marketing.

Gelvin Stevenson, vice chairman of the board.
In addition to his long-time involvement with venture capital and start-up companies, he was a writer and editor at ‘Business Week" magazine and held several posts in social investing, including Director of Investment Responsibility in the New York City Comptroller’s Office and Director of Creative Investments for the Presbyterian Foundation. Stevenson currently works as a financial writer, an investment consultant for a Native American Nation, and an adjunct economics professor at Manhattan College. He has a Ph.D. in economics.

Herb Boyd, vice president for editorial services.
A writer, journalist and lecturer with an international reputation, Boyd is the editor of the award-winning best seller, "Brotherman" and author of five books. He serves currently as the national editor of TBWT and is the originator/professor of the web site's unique online black history course. His work has been published in leading magazines and newspapers around the world. Boyd is a lecturer in African American history at the University of New Rochelle.

Frank Rojas, vice president for operations.
Father of Don Rojas, Frank brings to the company a distinguished career in broadcast journalism, public relations and public administration. Trained by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the Institute for Public Relations in London, Rojas served for many years as a senior civil servant and as a diplomat in several Caribbean countries. For 20 years he worked as the executive assistant to the president of a major New York City labor union. In the early 1970s, he published 'Caribbean Daily', the first and only Caribbean-American daily newspaper. He lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Frank McCoy, marketing director.
Currently an assistant business editor at US News and World Report, he was a former senior editor at Black Enterprise Magazine and staff writer at Business Week. He holds a masters degree in journalism from Columbia University and has worked in the investment banking field. He writes a column for TBWT called "Frank McCoy's Market Week" which covers marketing developments in black communities and countries around the world.

Winston Searchwell, chief financial officer.
He currently works as a senior accountant in the tax department of Suisse First Boston and has served in various capacities in the tax departments of leading Wall Street investment banking firms. He lives in New York City.

As long-standing prominent members of the African-American and Third World communities, CNT management has enormous credibility with its readership as well as with future partners and clients in the African-American religious community and nonprofit organizations. While focused on the African-American community, these efforts are highly inclusive of other minority communities and everyone who is interested in fresh perspectives in news and features.

Our multi-cultural team with vast international experience in publishing, business management, diplomacy and media consulting is uniquely qualified to produce content, commerce and community for a global black Internet audience. Unlike our counterparts in African American news media, whose scant resources tend to limit them to local news, our team is equipped to address the specific information needs and concerns of millions of blacks in Caribbean and Latin American countries like Brazil, Panama, Jamaica, Colombia et al.