Hon. Joe Gibbons
Hallandale Beach, Florida

Hon. Joe Gibbons is a member of the Board of Directors of the African American Success Foundation. He is a member of Florida House of Representatives and formerly serviced as a member of the Hallandale Beach City Commission, holding the distinction of being the city's second ever-elected black commissioner. Represenative Gibbons was born in Harlem-New York City, in 1948; and has been a resident of Hallandale Beach since 1996.

Joe received a Bachelors Degree in General Studies from Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1970, and a Masters Degree in Public Administration from John Jay College of the City University of New York, New York in 1974.

Joe began his professional career with IBM, in 1973, after serving as a Social Worker in his Harlem community. Joe spent eight years with IBM, in various executive sales and marketing positions. While at IBM, Joe earned the IBM 100% Club Presidency, for highest sales achievement nationwide. Joe left IBM in 1980 to pursue his entrepreneur desires, and has since owned several computer and imaging supply related companies. Joe was also President of the largest Imaging Supplies Manufacturing Company, in Canada.

Joe founded Gibbons Consulting Group in December 2003, and currently serves as its President. GCG is a business and sales consulting firm, specializing in product sales and distribution. Gibbon Consulting Group is in the business of providing advice and assistance to firms that are on the move, in trouble or trying to do what they do better, faster and more cheaply. Gibbons Consulting Group offers sales, marketing, financial and accounting, and incorporation assistance, to businesses, on a nationwide basis.

Joe has received numerous accolades for his success in business and dedication to community service. He was appointed to the White House Conference on Small Business; recognized on the cover of Nations Business Magazine for his enthusiasm and dedication to advancing small business initiatives; former Board member of Junior Achievement; Founder of Lets Recycle; Small Business Administration Minority Business Person of the year-Midwest Region; first President of the Southwestern Michigan Minority Business Council; and former member of the Canadian General Standards Board. Joe is a Board Member of the Hallandale Beach Neighborhood Improvement Association, the Hallandale Future Foundation, and the Hallandale-Pembroke Park Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Fund.  Joe serves on the Minority and Women Business Enterprise Advisory Committee for the School Board of Broward County, on the Voices of the 21st Century Multicultural Business Summit committee for The National Conference for Community and Justice, and as Vice President of the Hallandale Beach Democratic Club, Vice President of the Board of Directors of Anchor Bay Club Condominium, is a member of the Hallandale-Pembroke Chamber of Commerce, and the Hallandale Rotary Club.

You can contact Hon. Gibbons at Board@BlackSuccessFoundation.org