Executive. Speaker. Writer. Legacy Builder.
H. Beecher Hicks III is an accomplished executive, speaker, and writer. He is currently serving as an operating executive with a private equity backed company in the southeastern United States.
Previously, Henry served as the President and CEO of the National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) and as President and CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM). During his tenure at NMAAM he completed the $60mm capital campaign, facilitated the museum design process, led construction, and opened the museum in 2021, during the COVID pandemic.
In the tradition of his family legacy, Henry is an sought-after public speaker and skilled writer. He frequently addresses diverse groups keynoting on subjects including entrepreneurship, music and culture, social justice and his personal mantra, Dream Big Then Execute. He has been writing to his blog by that same name for more than a decade, is a periodic contributor to several periodicals, and has completed his first book, a memoir entitled Generation IV: There’s Power in the Name, with a release date to be announced soon.
Henry is a Morehouse man, earned his MBA at UNC Chapel Hill, is husband to Crystal, a gifted elementary school teacher, and proud father to two grown sons. He is highly accomplished in bringing people together, whether working in the federal government as a White House Fellow, doing deals as an investment banker, leading management teams to enterprise growth, or serving on community and corporate boards.
Henry represents a long line of accomplished men in the Hicks family. He is also proud of the accomplishments of his forefathers and of the strides that his sons are making as the generation following.
