Meet The President

Darraugh C. Butler, president of D. Butler Management Consulting, has over 14 years of corporate and government experience in supplier diversity program development. As an active leader and strong advocate of disadvantaged businesses, she is a former President/CEO of the South Central Ohio Minority Business Council (SCOMBC).

Butler began her work in economic inclusion developing supplier diversity programs "from the ground up" for The Ohio State University and Federated Department Stores, Inc. Butler served as minority business program manager for the creation, planning, development and administration of Ohio State's minority business development program and increased minority purchases of goods and services from 5% to 12% and MBE construction purchases from 9% to over 30%. Butler also served as minority business program administrator for the creation, planning, development and administration of Federated's supplier diversity program for corporate headquarters and nine headquarter store divisions. As a result of her work, Federated increased minority purchases from $50 million to over 130 million. Through this experience in corporate management, she realized her passion to assist disadvantaged businesses and began her life's work as a business management consultant in 1996.

Butler has managed companies programs whose procurement spending ranged from $665 Million to $20 Billion. D. Butler Management Consulting has managed capital improvement projects with economic inclusion initiatives that ranged from $35 Million to $385 Million in construction costs. Butler's work in supplier diversity program development from inside and outside a corporation offers a unique insight into what it takes for a program to run effectively and yield long-term results. Butler's phenomenal success rate in increasing purchases from female and minority business enterprises is unsurpassed in the tri-state region.