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Kevin Langley,
Chairman, Entrepreneurs' Organization
Kevin Langley has been an entrepreneur since his days as a student at Louisiana State University (LSU). Since then, as a serial entrepreneur, he has successfully founded and grown several businesses, including one of New Orleans-area’s top 100 largest privately held businesses. Langley is currently the CEO and co-owner of Ellis Construction, Inc., a regional commercial contractor based in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He also owns various other companies in real estate, construction, energy, and new media. Langley and his companies have received numerous awards including: Inc magazine’s Inner City 100, New Orleans’ City Business magazine’s Power Generation award, and the Junior Achievement’s Rising Star award.
Langley is currently the Chairman 2011-2012 of the Global Board for the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), having been a champion of the organization and its members for many years. In his role as returning EO New Orleans chapter President, he successfully led the recovery of the chapter after Hurricane Katrina, and organized and launched EO’s Accelerator program in New Orleans. Accelerator helps grow early-stage entrepreneurial ventures into companies earning more than $1 million (US) in annual revenue. The program is currently helping hundreds of early stage entrepreneurs grow their businesses in 23 cities in 4 countries. Langley led the effort to create the curriculum for the Accelerator program. He also served as chair of EO’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards.
In 2009, he represented the United States at the G8 Youth Entrepreneurship Summit in Stressa, Italy. He also represented the United States at the 2010 G20 Youth Entrepreneurship Summit in Ottawa, Canada and in Nice, France, November 2011.
He is serving on the Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry, the Louisiana Innovation Council, the LSU Honors College Advisory Board, the LSU Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute and the Xavier University Business Advisory Council. Langley and his wife, Donna, are the proud parents of nine-year-old triplets.
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