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Meet the first black woman to own and operate a billion-dollar company in the US认识美国第一位拥有和运营十亿美金公司的黑人妇女

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By Cortney Moore | FOXBusiness

When people think of multibillion-dollar companies, staffing businesses do not typically come to mind. But Janice Bryant Howroyd built her employment agency ActOne Group to be the powerful $2.8 billion company that is today with over 17,000 clients across the globe and presence in 19 countries.

当人们想到过十亿的公司时，人们脑海里并不会出现人员安置这样的业务。但是Janice Bryant Howroyd 创建了她的猎头机构ActOne Group市值28亿美元，如今已成为在全球范围内拥有17,000多个客户，业务遍及19个国家。

With a 1,500, Howroyd started ActOne Group in the front office of a Beverly Hills rug shop with only her fax machine, phone and a list of contacts she grew along the way. Little did Howroyd know that her humble beginnings and relentless work ethic would steer her down the path to becoming one of the richest African American women in the country.

在1978年加上从母亲那里借来的900美元和自己的积蓄，Howroyd在比佛利山庄地毯商店的前台创办了ActOne集团，只有一个传真机，一部电话和一份电话号码本。Howroyd从来都不会想到，她卑微的开始和不懈的职业精神，能够让她成为美国最富有的非裔美国妇女之一。

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"I didn't have a lot of what people typically have to start a business but I did have a lot of intelligence. Sometimes when you don't have anything, you can be bolder than someone who has something and is afraid to lose it," Howroyd told Forbes.

“我没有很多人们创业时的一些条件，但是我有智慧。当你一无所有的时候，你才能勇往直前而不畏得失。“Howroyd跟福布斯这样讲。

By 2014, Howroyd was recognized by Black Enterprise Magazine for being the first African American woman to own and operate a billion-dollar company in the U.S.

到2014年，Howroyd被黑人企业杂志认定为美国第一个坐拥和掌管一个价值十亿美金公司的非裔美国妇女。

The ActOne Group does more than staffing, it also offers workforce solutions and business services for Fortune 500 organizations, local and mid-market companies as well as government agencies. The company's subsidiaries include ActOne Personal Services, ActOne Government Solutions, AppleOne, AgileOne, A-Check Global, AT-Tech and All's Well – all of which helped generate $1.1 billion in net sales in 2018, according to Forbes.

ActOne集团不仅只是做职业安置的业务，也有为世界五百强企业做劳动力解决方案和商业服务的业务，同时也向当地和中型市场以及政府机构提供服务。集团的子公司包括ActOne Personal Services, ActOne Government Solutions, AppleOne, AgileOne, A-Check Global, AT-Tech and All's Well，根据福布斯统计，这些子公司在2018年创造了11亿美金的净销售额。

Howroyd also owns DSSI, a document management service to complement her portfolio of brands.

Howroyd还拥有DSSI，这是一种文档管理服务，可以补充其品牌组合。

"If you visit any of our offices, you'll see that we live by the mantra that 'the applicant is the center of our universe.' It's always been our belief that if you get that applicant in the right job, then they will be the best representation of who we are as a company," Howroyd said about her business, according to the Los Angeles Times.

“如果你参观任何一个我们的办公室，你将会看到‘申请者是我们宇宙的中心’这样的口头禅。帮助申请者获得适合的工作是我们一贯的信仰，那么他们将是我们公司形象的最佳代表。“据洛杉矶报采访Howroyd。

Aside from being one of the wealthiest self-made women in America – black or white – Howroyd is an educator, ambassador, author and mentor. In 2013, she was appointed a USA Ambassador of Energy at the White House, and by 2016, she received a key Presidential appointment by President Barack Obama as a member of the President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

除了成为在美国黑人或白人中白手起家的最富有的妇女之一，Howroyd还是一个教育家，大师，作家和导师。在2013年，她被任命为美国白宫能源大使，到了2016年，她获得了巴拉克·奥巴马总统的重要总统任命，成为历史悠久的黑人学院和大学的总统顾问委员会成员。

As a community leader, Howroyd lends business guidance at select organizations such as the International Trade Advisory Commission Board, Los Angeles Economic Development Corporate Board and the Women’s Leadership Board of the Harvard Kennedy School.

作为社区领袖，Howroyd向某些组织提供业务指导，例如国际贸易咨询委员会董事会，洛杉矶经济发展公司董事会和哈佛肯尼迪学校的妇女领导委员会。

Before Howroyd was a wealthy founder and CEO, she cultivated her professional relationship skills as a temporary secretary for her brother-in-law Tom Noonan at Billboard Magazine. And previous to that, she was a change maker as one of the first African American students to desegregate her town's high school.

在Howroyd成为一个富有的创始人和CEO之前，她在她姐夫工作的Billboard杂志当临时秘书时培养了自己的社交技能。在这之前，她是一位改变者，是首批取消镇上高中种族隔离的非洲裔美国学生之一。

Howroyd is an alumna of North Carolina A&T State University and is the fourth born out of a family of 11 children. With her family, she owns several properties including commercial and residential real estate. She often says her parents taught her that "attitude beats aptitude."

Howroyd是北卡罗莱纳州A＆T州立大学的校友，在家里11个孩子中排行老四。与家人一起，她拥有几处商业和住宅房地产。她经常提到她的父母教会她“态度胜过能力”。​