Chief Executive Officer
Virtcom Consulting
Founder of WDLS

Douglas C. Freeman is the CEO of Virtcom Consulting, a business strategy consultancy focused on impacting the “bottom-line” through corporate diversity initiatives. Based in New York City, with an affiliate office in London UK, the firm’s global client roster includes blue chip companies such as Cisco, The New York Times, Lifespan Healthcare, Visa and
RIM (maker of the Blackberry). Virtcom offers value-based services within three business lines: stra- tegy solutions (Global, Diversity ROI, Infrastructure, Employee Engagement and Connectivity), training and e-learning, and thought leadership (Research reports and Leadership development events). Virt- com most recently authored a breakthrough report for CalPers (the State Pension Fund of California and largest public pension fund in the US) on corporate board diversification and shareholder value. As CEO of Virtcom Consulting, Mr. Freeman founded the World Diversity Leadership Summit, in Prague, Czech Republic in 2004, one of the leading conferences of Global 1000 business leaders, government officials and community leaders to address global diversity management practices. In 2007 and 2008, the Summit was held at the United Nations and featured an international CEO Roundtable with the heads of Major League Baseball, HSBC, Procter & Gamble, Aviva UK, MGM Mirage, and Adecco. Most recently, Mr. Freeman co-developed the Global Partners Program and Global Women’s Leadership Forum in London UK with 5 multinational companies.
Mr. Freeman’s speaking engagements include: International Women’s Day at the United Nations, the UN Global Compact/ILO Global Diversity Dialogue in London, the UK Parliament’s Ethnic Minority Task Force, the European Union Commission’s Ethnic Minority Summit in Brussels, Belgium, the Interna- tional Diversity Symposium in Vienna Austria, the Aviva Bottom-Line Diversity Series in London, the International Paper CEO Forum in Memphis, Diversity Best Practices Conference (three times), the Conference Board Diversity Symposium in Chicago, the Linkage Conference in Atlanta (four times), the Global Women’s Leadership Forum in London, the Employment, Equality and Competitiveness confe- rence in the Hungarian Parliament, Budapest, the European Union Commission’s Diversity Innovation Summit in Brussels, the American Institute of Architects national conference in San Francisco, the Diversity Pays Conference in Madrid Spain, the Birmingham Diversity Summit and the Women of Color STEM Conference in Dallas.
In addition to Mr. Freeman’s corporate commitments, he has been actively involved in a range of phi- lanthropic and community affairs both domestically and internationally. Mr. Freeman currently serves as Vice Chairman of the United Nations Gender Equality Experts Panel and was named a 40Under40 business leader by the NYC Network Journal. Furthermore he is an appointed board trustee of George- town College (the US educational partner of Regents Park College, Oxford University), an appointee on the US Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency MED Week committee in Washington DC, is a member of the Chicago Sinfonietta National Advisory Board and is head of the US friends of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Freeman has just been installed for a multi- year appointment on the Dean’s Alumni Leadership Council at the JFK School of Government, Harvard University.
Prior to founding Virtcom, Mr. Freeman served as the Head of North American Business Development and Operations for Mondus.com, a B2B Internet company based in the UK, founded by two Oxford University Rhodes Scholars, and which raised nearly $170M before its eventual sale to an Italian media company. Mr. Freeman also served as a senior associate for Deloitte Consulting in the global tele- communications practice and as an investment banker at JP Morgan Chase in the restructuring group. Mr. Freeman holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy focused on International Trade and Finance from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and a BA from the University of California at Berkeley.