KEYNOTE PRESENTER
Kiko Davis Snoddy
Global Entrepreneur, Orator, Advocate, and Author
Kiko Davis Snoddy is a global entrepreneur, orator, advocate, and author. Kiko is the trustee of the Donald Davis Living Trust. The Davis Trust is the majority shareholder of First Independence Bank, the 7th largest Black owned bank in the United States, controlled by the Davis Family. In addition, Kiko is the managing director of Groovesville Productions & Publishing LLC which controls the Grammy Award-winning music catalog of multiple gold and platinum selling hit records.
Prior to her role as foundation founder and president, Davis Snoddy worked as a real estate professional facilitating multiple development projects which included building and rehabbing multiple affordable single-family residential properties and several commercial real estate projects throughout the country.
Kiko Davis Snoddy is diligent at maintaining a historically significant empire while forging yet another path all her own. Always creating opportunities, she is currently developing products for the fashion & beauty industry, along with collaborating with a production company to produce several films and a documentary. Kiko also co-authored her first book A Widow’s Resilience – Wisdom Keys for Moving Forward in Life and Love After Death Do Us Part.
Her philanthropy extends to the support of multiple great causes and organizations such as the Ronald McDonald House, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Covenant House, United Negro College Fund, NAACP and many other organizations that serve the community.
A respected investor, highly sought national speaker and passionate mentor, Davis Snoddy has received numerous accolades for her work including the prestigious Ebony Magazine Power 100 honor, the Michigan Chronicle’s Women of Excellence Award, Career Mastered Women’s History National Leadership in Action Award, Café Mocha’s Salute THEM: Business Legacy Award and the distinguished, Crain’s Business 2021 – Most Influential Women in Michigan Honor, an award bestowed only every five years. In addition she recently completed the Women’s Executive Leadership program at Yale School of Management.
Recently, Kiko became a co-chair and founder of Reparation Generation, a 501(c)(3), national organization that provides direct reparative transfers to Black Americans for wealth-building pursuits in the areas of homeownership, entrepreneurship and education. She continues to speak across the nation with a special focus on empowering women in business.
Guided by faith and divine order, Kiko wed international manufacturer Anthony L. Snoddy in late The couple lends their combined philanthropic efforts by serving on the Detroit Music Hall Board of Trustees and the Chairman’s Circle. The Snoddy’s are devoted parents to five children around whom their world revolves.
