Earnie Ellison, Jr.

Mr. Ellison is the managing partner of Ellison Consulting Group, a diversity and inclusion consultancy focused on the sports industry; leveraging inclusion to create value for sports companies, national sports organizations, and partners.

His previous corporate career includes a seventeen-year tenure with the Professional Golf Association of America (PGA) as director of business and community Relations. At PGA, he directed initiatives to create a positive image for PGA as it related to diversity and inclusion and brought awareness to the federal and state governments about the economic and social impact generated by the business of golf. He created the domestic golf industry supplier diversity initiative. He also facilitated the development of a sanctioned professional golf management program at a Historically Black College and University (HBCU), so Black and Brown students could earn a degree in golf management. Mr. Ellison started his career with IBM where over an eighteen-year period he held financial positions spanning from manufacturing to corporate, international assignments in North and South America, Far East Countries, and a two-year relocation to Paris with financial coverage for Europe and Mid-East Countries. Ellison was also director of finance for Unisys.

Mr. Ellison graduated from Alabama A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and business management. He is a life member of Sigma Pi Phi (The Boulé) and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternities.