Speakers
Irvin Ashford Jr, is Senior Vice President of Corporate and Public Affairs, Director of Community Development and External Affairs for Comerica Bank.
He received Comerica’s Volunteer of the Year Award and the Chairman’s Outstanding Achievement Award for leadership and quality. He was recognized by The National Association of Black Accountants and The National Black MBA Association for his leadership and support of programs benefiting low- to moderate-income individuals and communities in Dallas.
Mr. Ashford was named to the 2007 United States delegate class of the British-American Project. He is a Woodrow Wilson International Studies and Public Policy Fellow, an American Marshall Fellow and a Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und gerd Bucerius Fellow.
In 2008, Mr. Ashford earned the Dallas Business Journal’s Minority Business Leader Award for his outstanding leadership in the business community.
Mr. Ashford was the recipient of the 2015 Individual Achievement DiversityFirst Award from the Texas Diversity Council. Mr. Ashford was named the 2015 Change Happens! Community Hero and was awarded Driving Diversity Advocacy Award for Outreach from the Greater Dallas Asian American Chamber of Commerce.
Recently, Mr. Ashford was presented with the 2016 Dallas Business Journal Minority Business Leader Award.
His civic and community involvement includes serving on the board of directors for the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Dallas, PeopleFund, Kym’s Kids, University of Dallas Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business Advisory Board, Focus on the Teens, and the Texas Women’s Empowerment Foundation.
A graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio, Mr. Ashford, earned dual master’s degrees – public affairs from the University of Texas and business administration from the University of Dallas.