W. Larry Williams Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

W. Larry Williams is a successful entrepreneur and business management professional, Larry has a Master’s in Business Marketing and a BA in Journalism. He has skillfully guided many small and medium sized businesses and non-profits to success through his keen advertising, marketing and business management excellence. Larry is considered by many as a genius when it comes to niche, target and diverse branding and marketing. His creative and out-of-the box business thinking has helped many clients achieve and become the best in their industries with award winning projects.

United States

President’s BIOAbout The President & CEO – W. Larry WilliamsW. Larry Williams is the Founder, Chairman, President and CEO of FirstThursday World Charities Inc., FirstThursday Biz Seattle & FirstThursday Seattle. An extremely successful entrepreneur and business management professional, Larry has a Master's in Business Marketing, a BA in Journalism and a PH.D. in the hard knocks school of life/business. He has skillfully guided many small and medium sized businesses and non-profits to success through his keen advertising, marketing and business management excellence. He is considered by many as a genius when it comes to niche, target and diverse branding and marketing. His creative and out-of-the box business thinking has helped many clients achieve and become the best in their industries with award winning projects.Larry is very well connected and respected personally, professionally and spiritually from Seattle, Washington and the Great Northwest to the Pan Handles of Florida and beyond. His favorite sayings are, “Happy Day! And “Thank you God for Another 24 Hours To Live!”Larry is married (42 plus years) to Francine Williams (co-Founder FirstThursday). They have three adult daughters and four grandchildren.

Urban advocacy, marketing and professional individual/group training and speaking. Author, "Gorilla Marketing for the 21st Century".

Greater Seattle Area

W. Larry Williams is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of FirstThursday Biz Seattle & Jacksonville. He is responsible for driving entrepreneurs and future entrepreneurs to successfully realize their dreams of economic prosperity. A successful entrepreneur and business management professional, he has a Master's in Business Marketing, a BA in Journalism and a PH.D. in the hard knocks school of life/business. He has skillfully guided many small and medium sized businesses and non-profits to success through his keen advertising, marketing and business management excellence. He is a genius when it comes to niche, target and diverse marketing. His creative and out-of-the box business thinking has helped many of his clients achieve and become the best in their industries with award winning projects.Larry is an eCommerce expert who is passionate about innovative technology and creating an experience that makes it easy for businesses to have fun while exceeding their bottom-line expectations. He is well connected and respected personally, professionally and spiritually from Seattle. Washington and the Great Northwest to the Pan Handles of Florida and beyond.

Seattle, Wa

FirstThursday SeattleEmpowerment through NetworkingFounder & CEO Professional networking organization designed to assist individuals with improving their personal and business networking opportunities.

Augusta, Georgia Area

Anchor Advertising, Marketing & Social Media Agency has more than 30 years experience in segmented media advertising, branding and media planning & placement. Anchor also provides general market and diversity consulting and training in social media marketing, web site development and web site maintenance.

Greater Seattle Area

The Executive Director (ED) serves as the leader of CAMP. Plans, develops, and establishes policies and objectives of organization in accordance with board directives and corporation charter. The top executive in the organization, the ED reports directly to the board of directors. The ED is responsible for the profitability of the entire organization. The ED confers with the board and community leaders to plan organization objectives, to develop organizational policies, coordinate functions and operations between divisions and departments, and to establish responsibilities and procedures for attaining objectives. Reviews monthly and quarterly program activity reports and financial statements to determine progress and status in attaining objectives and revises objectives and plans in accordance with current conditions. Responsible for directing and coordinating financial programs to provide funding for all programs.

Promoted to Project Program Manager to assist with the development of a regional human resources web site. Provided research, identified and secured other government agency participation, staffed meeting, made presentations to department manager and when necessary to county executive staff.

Tiloben Publishing Co., Inc. Chief Executive OfficerTiloben Publishing Company, Inc. is the largest African American owned Communications Company in the West. Responsibilities included: managing a staff of 20 FTE’s and 35 part-time employees, publishing four weekly newspapers and four regional radio stations, direct supervision of two newspaper publishers, four editors, general managers for broadcast and print and four vice presidents.

Managed all Marketing and Special Projects. Reporting to President/CEO, responsible for increasing unrestricted agency by 100% over five years. Earned two national awards from the National Urban League.

Mba, Business Management

MBA Business Marketing

Undergrad, Math

Studied MATH

Journalism, Journalism

Studied Journalism