Wendell R. Stemley
President
National Association of Minority Contractors

Lunchtable Host

Wendell Stemley is president of the National Association of Minority Contractors (NAMC) and the founder and CEO of Black IPO Inc., a construction management and engineering firm based in San Diego. As President and CEO, he has been instrumental in fostering business relationships between minority businesses and major corporations on mega projects throughout the country, generating billions of dollars in completed projects. He has been a member of the National Association of Minority Contractors for over 25 years, serving as its national pesident for five terms. As an Emeritus national director of the 53-year old trade association, he is an outspoken advocate for the concerns of minority-owned construction contractors.
Previously, Wendell was employed by TRW Space Systems Group, which provided consulting services to the U.S. Air Force Ballistic Missile Office at Norton AFB; General Dynamics and Boeing Military Aircraft Co., one of the principal designers for the buildout of the European Repair Test Station Facility, NATO Support Group, in Brussels, Belgium. He also was executive vice president and COO of Myriad Industries Inc., working with investment bankers on the company’s private placement and recapitalization in 1992 when it became a publicly traded company. At the time, Myriad was only the fifth African American firm listed on the NASDAQ exchange. Wendell received the NAACP California A. Phillip Randolph Activist Award in 2013.
He obtained a BS degree in Engineering from Southern University and is an Alumni of the Minority Business Management Executive Program at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth University. He is a long-term tenured member of the Construction Management Association of America.