Mr. Black is currently the Chief Financial Officer and Director of Finance for the City of Richmond, Virginia. He is responsible for coordinating the activities of the Departments of Finance, Budget & Strategic Planning, Procurement Services and Minority Business Development. He is also responsible for the formulation, development and execution of an all funds budget of $1.2 billion and a capital budget of $161 million.

Prior to joining the City of Richmond, Mr. Black served as a Vice President for McKissack & McKissack of Washington, D.C., where he also served as Program Manager for their U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps project. Through Mr. Black and his team, McKissack & McKissack provided cradle to grave program management support to the Job Corps $500 million, five year capital construction program, nationwide.  Mr. Black served as the Deputy Chief Procurement Officer for the District of Columbia Government, where he successfully directed the implementation of the D.C. Supply Schedule Program (DCSS) using electronic catalogues, and led an overall modernization of the City’s Office of Contracting and Procurement (processes, technology, strategic sourcing).

Mr. Black served as Assistant Director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Contracts (MOC), which was responsible for overseeing the City’s $7 billion annual acquisition activity.  He served as Assistant Director of Fiscal Management and Investments for the New York State Insurance Fund, the nation’s second largest workers’ compensation insurance carrier, with assets of more than $6.7 billion.

Mr. Black has also served as the Director of Budget and Finance for the D.C. City Council and as Chief Financial Officer and Director of Administration for the District’s Child and Family Services Agency.  Mr. Black has served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Long Island University (Brooklyn campus) Graduate School of Business/Public Administration.  He has lectured on public finance and planning at the District of Columbia’s South Eastern University and the Technical University of Nova Scotia, at Halifax, respectively.  Mr. Black is the author of “Achieving Economic Development Success: Tools that Work”, a nuts and bolts primer for local governments that desire to pursue community/economic development.  The book was published by the International City/County Management Association in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Black is a graduate of Virginia State University and the University of Virginia, where he received his Bachelors of Science and Masters degrees in Public Administration, respectively.