Meet Janice Bryant Howroyd, the first African American woman to run a $1-billion business
Janice Bryant Howroyd, 65, is founder and chief executive of Act 1 Group, an employment agency that also provides consulting and business services, including background checks and screening. She's the first African American woman to operate a company that generates more than $1 billion in annual revenue, according to Black Enterprise Magazine. Act 1, which includes other brands such as Agile 1, A-Check Global and AppleOne, has contracts with 17,000 clients in 19 countries.
"If you visit any of our offices," Howroyd said, "you'll see that we live by the mantra that 'the applicant
