Michael D. Campbell
Michael D. Campbell, Managing Principal of CFK & Associates, LLC, is a social entrepreneur with ties into the East Bay Health Care community. He currently volunteers as the multimedia specialist and is a board member of the East Bay non-profit, African American Wellness Project (AAWP.) Mr. Campbell is also a principal in the Diversified Food Network LLC. DFN is a fresh produce brokerage company with operations in both Salinas and Oakland California. DFN now provides conventional and organic produce nationwide to several large retail outlets.
Mr. Campbell holds a bachelor's degree in Business Finance from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois where is graduated in May 1980. After nearly eight years in the telecommunications industry, Campbell received a fellowship from the Walter Kaitz Foundation in October of 1991. From there he transitioned into the cable television business. Campbell was employed with Home Box Office in their San Francisco regional office as a Sales Development Executive for nearly ten years. While at HBO he obtained two multimedia certificates from Cal State-East Bay and he started his own media company MDC Media on a part time basis.
After leaving the full-time employ of HBO in April 2001, he became a media consultant and took on HBO as one of his clients and began producing web sites in the public and private sector. Campbell also pursued health care consulting with the Ethnic Health Institute of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in March of 2002 where he helped establish the African American Wellness Project. In July of the same year, Campbell graduated with honors from the Leadership Oakland training program sponsored by the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and the Oakland Rotary Club. Campbell also spent year and half in 2003 through 2006 as a Project Coordinator at Children's Hospital and Research Center of Oakland working on a grant looking at Nutrigenomics and its affect on health disparities in minority communities.
Campbell strongly believes that minority entrepreneurs should look to new and emerging markets for opportunities internationally for their products and services. With this in mind he traveled to both Cuba and Jamaica to explore both humanitarian, food and beverage exporting opportunities in 2004. In October 2005 he traveled to Belize with the Tri-County African American Chamber of Commerce based in Houston, Texas. He is currently working with Houston entrepreneurs to import fresh fruit and vegetables from Belize.
Campbell is an Oakland resident who is the father of an ten year old son, Khari, who attends Oakland public schools. He attends the First AME Church of Oakland where he has been a member since 1983. He is a member of the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and the Oakland African American Chamber of Commerce.