Former Obama Official Tapped to Lead OneTen Black Jobs Coalition
A group of major companies pledged to hire 1 million Black people for midlevel jobs in a decade.
Maurice Jones
Source: Local Initiatives Support Corp.
The OneTen Coalition, a group of 39 large U.S. companies that pledged to hire 1 million Black workers in the next decade, has tapped a former Obama administration official as its first chief executive officer.
Maurice Jones, the CEO and president of Local Initiatives Support Corp., a nonprofit that promotes community revitalization, will assume the post on March 1, Ken Frazier, the CEO of Merck & Co. and a co-chair of OneTen, said in a statement Wednesday. Jones was deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from 2012 to 2014 and recently served as Virginia’s secretary of Commerce and Trade.