Mel Albin

special guest  on the premier of Solving for X: The Retirement Equation That Nobody Taught You. Over 25 years ago, Mel Albin was described in the New York Times as “the best-known, unknown person in America.” Mel is still trying to figure out if this was a compliment. Mel is obsessed with complexity: uncovering what appears to be randomness but contains an underlying explanatory structure. Conversely, if there is a consensus, then it is fundamentally flawed.    Mel is the owner of MEA Holdings® LLC, a multimedia enterprise that currently features the SORC®-TVRadio Network, ShopBlackEnterprise.com, and the BlackBusinessesMatterLIVEAIDConcert.com. Mel is CEO for The SORC®-TVRadio Network, one of the biggest non-profit, commercial-free adult music and talk show Internet broadcast stations on the East Coast, reaching an average monthly global audience nearly 3 million and over 38 million global viewers/listeners annually. He has produced award-winning streaming radio shows and was an artist manager for two decades. Mel has his own weekly live streaming show,The Jazz ConFusion Power Hour, Thursday evenings at 7:00 PM EDT.  Mel is the Managing Partner in City Streets Music® a non profit organization that provides world class music festivals to small cities throughout the US.   Dr Albin has spent a good portion of his career in academia as a full-time undergraduate/ graduate faculty member and program administrator at Adelphi University, Excelsior College, UMUC (now University of Maryland Global Campus), and Strayer University. Mel served as Executive Director of the Executive MBA at UMUC and created and served as Executive Director for the graduate program, Center for Global Enterprise at McDaniel College. Mel has taught graduate courses in Financial/Investment/Retirement Planning and Small Business Startup and Management for over 40 years.  Founder of The Albin Companies of Ohio LTD, an employee benefits education consultancy. Clients included Lubrizol, the Federal Reserve of Cleveland Ohio, AT&T, Westinghouse Turbine, Disney, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, and others. He also served as Vice President for Strategy and Communications and later, Senior Consultant at Diversified Investment Advisors (renamed TransAmerica Retirement Services).   Albin holds a BA in Political Science, an MA in US Economic and Business History, an MBA in Econometrics (Investment Portfolio Analysis), and a dual Ph.D. in U.S. Business and Economic History/Neuropsychology. Mel is a frequent contributor to The New York Times. He completed an unpublished manuscript, From Slave to Millionaire: The Origins of Black Contemporary Civil Rights Leadership. Mel’s interests also focus on Black and minority micro-businesses too small for Amazon or Shopify, but represent over 95% of all Black businesses in the US.