The CEO Spotlight series features Michael J. Garner, who was appointed NYC\u2019s first Chief Business Diversity Officer (CBDO) in 2023 after a career spanning 30 years at the NYC Housing Authority (NYCHA), the NYC School Construction Authority (SCA), and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). <\/p>\n
Garner will be responsible for driving the Mayor\u2019s aggressive vision of awarding $25 billion in contracts to NYC-certified Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises by the end of the city\u2019s 2026 Fiscal Year (FY) and $60 billion by the end of the 2030 FY.<\/p>\n
Under Garner, NYC has realized the FY 2026 goal of awarding $25 billion in M\/WBE contracts months ahead of schedule, achieved three back-to-back FYs of over $6 billion in M\/WBE contract awards, and has successfully achieved – and maintained \u2013 citywide 30% M\/WBE contract utilization rate among the city agencies bound to comply with the NYC local law that directs the city\u2019s M\/WBE Program, the latter being another Mayoral goal.<\/p>\n
During his tenure at the MTA, they were ranked first in payments made to NYS- certified MWBEs, representing 30% of all payments by the State during that time period. NY State Fiscal Years 2020\/21 – 2022\/23 saw the MTA pay over $1.7 billion to NYS-certified MWBEs, and $891 million to certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprises, (DBEs) on USDOT-funded contracts. Notably, 37% of those dollars were paid to Black and Hispanic-owned businesses.<\/p>\n
In July 2021, Garner was selected by Crain\u2019s New York Business, as \u201cTop Diversity and Inclusion Officer of the Year. He serves as an advisor on MWDBE matters to various Cities\/States, including the Cities of Buffalo, Chicago, Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), and the State of New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Garner\u2019s innovative programming has ensured access to government contracts for various communities of color. As a result, those communities have access to better job creation and educational opportunities, home ownership, and expanded health care options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CEO Spotlight series features Michael J. Garner, who was appointed NYC\u2019s first Chief Business Diversity Officer (CBDO)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,93117,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-238367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-ceo-spotlight","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}