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Marlon Evans

PresidentHBCU Founders Initiative

Biography

Marlon's professional career spans higher education, foundations, Fortune 500s, and startups. The driving force behind all of his career choices has been a desire to create positive social impact. In 2018, Marlon was named CEO of Nex Cubed, an investor that creates and accelerates frontier tech companies with an emphasis on digital health and fintech. To date, the Nex Cubed portfolio consists of 80+ startups with an aggregate value of $500M and over 60% of the startups are led by female and minority founders. In an effort to increase Nex Cubed’s impact, Marlon led the launch of the HBCU Founders Initiative, a 501c3 organization designed to inspire entrepreneurship at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Since 2021, in partnership with corporations such as Costco, Microsoft and Ally, as well as the Skoll, UNCF and Walton Family Foundations, over 1,200 students and alums from 80+ HBCUs have participated in its acceleration programs.