Douglas C. Freeman, CEO, Product Client and Business Strategy
Virtcom Consulting

Douglas C. Freeman is the CEO of Virtcom Consulting, a business strategy consultancy focused on driving value creation linked to diversity initiatives in money and mission centric organizations. The firm‘s client roster includes blue chip organizations such as Cisco, Visa, RIM maker of the Blackberry and the United States Olympic Committee. In 2010, Virtcom launched The Inclusion Labtm, a collaborative experience service to help organizations in various regions of the US identify inclusion based business opportunities across multiple functions and business units. Virtcom has proposed building an Inclusion Center of Excellence for the Advertising Industry in 2012.
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. In 2009, the conference was hosted by the International Monetary Fund, and in 2010 the WDLS-EU was hosted by the Vice Chancellor of Austria in tandem with the UK, Canada and US Ambassadors. Most recently, Mr. Freeman co-developed the Global Partners Program and Global Womens Leadership Forum in London UK with 5 multinational companies.
Mr. Freeman’s speaking engagements include: International Womens 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 International 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, Linkage Conference in Atlanta (four times), the Global Womens Leadership Forum in London, the Employment, Equality and Competitiveness conference 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 and Miami, the Diversity Pays Conference in Madrid Spain, the Birmingham Diversity Summit, the Women of Color STEM Conference in Dallas, the Morristown New Jersey and Albany New York Chambers of Commerce Diversity Keynote Panels.
In addition to Mr. Freeman’s corporate commitments, he has been actively involved in a range of philanthropic and community affairs both domestically and internationally. Mr. Freeman currently serves as Vice Chairman of the United Nations Gender Equality Experts Panel, was named a “40 Under 40” business leader by the NYC Network Journal, is an appointed board trustee of Georgetown College (the US educational partner of Regents Park College, Oxford University), is 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 leads 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, 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 telecommunications 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. Mr. Freeman resides in Prague, New York and Victoria British Columbia, Canada.