Francilia Wilkins Rahim, CEO of R.F. Wilkins Consultants; and Jamila N. Glean, Senior Vice President
Nationwide — R.F. Wilkins Consultants (RFW), a Black-owned agency based mostly in New York Metropolis, has named Jamila N. Glean, Esq. as Senior, Vice President efficient January 6, 2025. Since becoming a member of RFW in Could 2023, she instantly demonstrated her management skills and enterprise acumen. She leads the biggest venture administration group on the agency which is chargeable for managing compliance on the $19+B JFK Redevelopment Program for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Thanks partially to Ms. Glean and her group’s efforts, Minority and Ladies-Owned Companies have been in a position to entry $2.3B in contract alternatives; enhancing the enterprise trajectory of a whole bunch of native companies within the building, items, and providers industries all through Southeast, Queens.
Ms. Glean is a strategic chief with over 20 years of expertise specializing in operational technique, compliance, and driving ends in complicated, multi-billion-dollar tasks. Ms. Glean possesses a authorized background which she leverages to efficiently navigate regulatory challenges and assist inclusive initiatives that profit companies and communities alike.
Previous to becoming a member of R.F. Wilkins Consultants, Glean was Vice President of Analysis, Operations, and Compliance for NYS Empire State Growth’s Division of Minority and Ladies’s Enterprise Growth. The Division promotes a vigorous, inclusive, and rising state financial system. Her different earlier roles embrace Director of M/WBE Compliance and Enterprise Growth Director for Ruzow & Associates, Inc., a boutique investigations, compliance, and monitoring agency in addition to Variety Procurement & EEO Officer for WDF Inc. one of many nation’s main heavy mechanical, plumbing, HVAC contractors and specialty common contractors. Ms. Glean holds a Juris Doctorate from Northeastern College College of Regulation and a Bachelor of Arts from SUNY Binghampton. She is the Co-Founder and Podcast Host of Rant and Rave, a dwell city corridor collection and podcast devoted to addressing the considerations of Brooklyn’s Caribbean neighborhood.
“This promotion is a chance to refine how we function and strategize internally in order that we are able to ship even higher outcomes externally. I’m dedicated to creating techniques that drive effectivity, empower our groups, and place us to exceed expectations for our purchasers and communities. I’m excited to steer this subsequent chapter with intention and focus,” says Senior Vice President Jamila N. Glean Esq.
“It’s with nice pleasure and pleasure that I announce the well-deserved elevation of Jamila
N. Glean, Esq., from Mission Director to Senior Vice President of R.F. Wilkins Consultants! In lower than two years, she has overseen the MWLBE & SDVOB compliance and outreach efforts for the historic $20 billion redevelopment of JFK airport whereas fostering profitable inside groups at each step. Her ardour for main with goal will undoubtedly proceed to raise the complete group as we proceed to scale as a key participant inside the high .1% of African American woman-owned companies throughout the nation,” says Francilia Wilkins Rahim Chief Govt Officer R.F. Wilkins Consultants and AYO Labs.
About R. F. Wilkins Consultants
Based in 2011 by Francilia Wilkins Rahim, Chief Govt Officer, R.F. Wilkins Consultants was as soon as a fledgling consulting enterprise based in the course of the Nice Recession. Since then, the enterprise growth and administration consulting agency has grown right into a nationally acknowledged skilled providers firm. At the moment, RFW is within the 0.1% of African American Feminine-owned companies producing over $1M in income and 0.2% of Ladies-Owned Companies throughout the nation.
The agency offers a variety of providers together with venture administration, compliance, grants administration and capital sourcing, and know-how techniques integration. Amongst their quite a few purchasers embrace the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, and NYC Native Initiatives Assist Company. The agency’s market presence is unfold all through the Northeast from New York to North Carolina.
In 2023, the agency was named Marketing consultant of the 12 months by the American Society of American Navy Engineers for its compliance work throughout the $20B JFK Redevelopment Mission. In 2024, RFW based its second firm, AYO Labs, a 40K sq. foot contract manufacturing facility, R&D laboratory, and ecosystem that supercharges equitable progress and inclusivity within the well being and wonder trade on the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
For extra info go to: RFWConsultants.com and AyoLabs.com
