"If anyone embodies the true entrepreneurial spirit, it's this guy"
-Geoff Williams (AOL Small Business)
"Extraordinary Is My Ordinary" -RahGor
Biography of RahGor
International award-winning motivational speaker, author and CEO Rahfeal Gordon has come a long way from being homeless in the notorious streets of Newark, NJ.
Rahfeal established his first company, Infinite Productions, while attending Arts High School in New Jersey at the age of 15. The company mission was to develop events that provided unity within the high school and college campuses.
In 2001, Rahfeal established a college organization chapter entitled Team Infinite on the campus of Montclair State University and Bloomfield College. In addition to the success of Team Infinite, in 2005, Rahfeal established the Rahfeal C. Gordon Scholarship Fund. The Scholarship is designed to benefit high school and college students with average grades, but whom exhibit exceptional business acumen and entrepreneurial spirit.
Then in 2008, Rahfeal launched two major companies- RahGor Publishing and RahGor Motivations, wrote his first of five published books entitled, You Wont Make It. Rahfeal was featured in the Sundays Star Ledger, I Am New Jersey profile entitled Motivated, with many follow-up articles on his motivational seminars and a multi-page spread in the 2008 Winter/Spring edition of Inspire magazine.
He has performed at world renowned places such as Madison Square Garden, Jacob Javit Center, Juilliard School and the Los Angeles Convention Center. Rahfeal surprisingly debuted his internationally known seminar Hip Hop Saved My Life to a sold out audience at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center- the 6th largest theater in the country. He currently holds endorsements from corporations such as NewsCorp, CBS, BET, INC Magazine and Oppenheimer Funds.
He has won the 2008 Global Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Oppenheimer Funds Social Entrepreneurship Award category by The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). He was then featured on the Fox News Channel Money for Breakfast program.
Rahfeal Gordons inspirational work continues to bring him to the attention of many notables. He has appeared on My 9 News, Real Talk with Brenda Blackmon and Voices of America- which is an international news broadcaster. He has been appointed on various non-profit organization boards that cater to families in need from around the world.
Rahfeal began 2009 on a positive note, He was nominated for the 2009 NAACP Image Award for his book Homeroom Heroes along with co-author/actor Michael B. Jordan while graduating from Montclair State University in New Jersey. He recently competed in the Mercedes Benz Financials Global Entrepreneur Business Plan Competition in Atlantic City, New Jersey at the Bogota Hotel, where he placed top 6 out of 5,000+ business owners in the eastern region of the United States. Rahfeal was just featured in AMC Theaters distributed film, TEN9EIGHT, produced by Award-winning producer Mary Mazzio.
Rahfeal recently recieved the Ernst & Young Cyrstal Award while on the RahGor World Tour.
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