The sisters are 2 or 3 business women in Dubai whom Elcherre met during one of her trips. They have supposedly offered to help her in her endeavours. She never passed along their contact information.
Abdo is a graphic designer from Egypt whom I met through Freelancer.com who designed my business logo. I brought him onboard to work with graphics/video. He was slated to join us in Dubai for both his graphics skills and also to assist in a research expedition as our interpreter during a proposed trip to Dubai in Spring of 2022. The trip fell through leaving him highly disillusioned.
Not to give up I later brought him in to design the business logo. This was a dreadful experience mismanaged by Elcherre and Allan. Abdo and Shovon were brought in under my team. The logo discussions were a mess. It hit the skids organizationally when Allan went behind my back to engage with Abdo on the design. This dragged the process out further, well beyond the time anticipated by Abdo to do a FREE logo.
I explained to Elcherre several times that the minumum fee for a logo is $500 and commonly $2000 or more. She blew this off as something that Abdo needed to give to show his belief in the business purpose - and that he would get rewarded later. This didn't go over well with Abdo or me. As I explained as a student he had expenses. Oh well.
This bothered me so much that I paid him $500 out of my pocket. Several months later he asked if Elcherre was going to come through and make it right. He needed more school money. This was never going to happen. I dug in and paid him another $1500 to make it right.
Media Designer | Creative Designer | Motion Graphics Animator | Video Editor | Videographer
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Allan Olipane is a business coach whom I met as a client. When I saw how messy Elcherre's business was I introduced him and after a couple Zoom calls he got entrenched as part of the core team. Money was on his mind. Once aboard he tried to build an organization where he and Elcherre would run the organization. He ended up taking charge of the zoom core team meetings, mostly on Fridays. He saw himself as someone the business could not do without.
Like the rest of the core team including me he input time anticipating that his time would be rewarded in a big way when the work climaxed. Unfortunately he turned out to be a control freak who seemed to care more about money/control than the goal of the business which was to improve peoples' lives, the lives of the fighters and their families. In my opinion he was a fake.
After the incident with Abdo where he went behind my back I threatened to resign. Elcherre didn't want that. I remained with the business but my communication with Allan ended - period. Later she told me that he said I served no useful purpose - and I believe should be let go. From my perspective I told her to be wary of him, that many of his actions were of questionable ethics. She later determined the same but had no one else who could do the work he did so kept him.
I think that one reason why me sent packing was that he was afraid of me. He knew that I had a corporate understanding of business ethics and of course knew that his actions were unethical.
Later when it came to investing Elcherre threw out several times that she needed money for the upcoming concerts, Janet Jackson in particular, and that Allan and some guy named Jose were ready to jump onboard. If they did invest then according to her they would be principle investors and would have some business control which might eventually mean control over her and bringing in all their people. When I became aware of this I thought and decided that that was wrong. This eventually brought me along to investing as a "Silent Investor'. As I was not in communication with anyone but Elcherre and I believed her words I really have no idea whether Allan and Jose were really possible investors. This could have been a ploy to get money from me. This was my initiation into being an investor, about $50,000.
When she needed more money later it was I fell into the same trap where the threat of Allan investing scared me into investing. This happened several times.
Allan has 30 years as an executive coach, business consultant and healthcare administrator.
“If you know yourself and know your enemy, 100 battles, 100 victories. Know when to fight, and when not to fight.”
-- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Education:
Masters in Business Administration (MBA) with sequential in Human Resources from Webster University in St. Louis, MO
Bachelor of Science, Workforce Education, Training and Development from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL
Charles Houston was Elcherre's legal friend. He was brought into the core team as the legal advisor. Elcherre was cautious of his intentions. She told me that he offered to invest $50,000 into the business if she would marry him, but also he wanted some major control of the business. Several times I approached him to assist with website legal documents such as Privacy Policy or Terms & Conditions. His responses were totally useless.
Elcherre also referred him to me for a legal website and some technical problems. The technical problems involved helping him with a dead slow PC. Shovon and I had several zoom calls with him with his PC. It really was bad. We helped clean it up but that did not help enough. A few discussions later he agreed to have us build a new PC for him. We did so and sent it to him. It cost over $650. We ran into a technical problem in getting it to work with his scanner. He said he would send it back and we agreed to not bill him. He never sent it back and continued to ignore bills.
The point here is that Charles ethics stink.
Damian was Elcherre's partner/counterpart in Dubai, very influential. He was more/less managing the Dubai business investments which included real estate. Several times when sending money through paypal she had me make memos to the effect of Dubai or Damian. Part of the idea was to keep for us some share of the business. At one point I might have discussed with her putting a few thousand dollars in Shovon's name.
Damian is the managing director at the Royal Office in Dubai. He works with startups and investments.
Donald Green was a legal client of my brother's. Via my brother he referred Elcherre to me.
A couple months after the referral the relationship fractured with Elcherre. She accused him of stalking her, sending incessant text messages, more. She regularly claimed to me that she was afraid of him, afraid that he would come to Georgia and harass her. She claimed that he was attempting to contact her fighters and turn them to him. This included a female fighter in India. She also said that he threatened to kill Patrick Dyke (Nigeria coach) if he ever came to America. I have no doubts that this was possible but no evidence to support any of the claims.
We cannot use him because of the legal relationship with my brother. We also cannot reference my brother beyond the initial introduction for legal reasons. This is FYI material.
Dr. Favour was the Nigerian presidential candidate that we were supporting. I created a spotlight page on the website for him. This is the body of the article minus any images.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/favourayodele/
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I don't know much about Dr. Ogbu. He was mentioned once or twice then Elcherre asked me to contact him to see if he could help us hook up with arranging a professional boxing match in Nigeria, probably Lagos. I called him and spoke then we communicated by email. He was an acquaintance of Elcherre's brother, Reverand Oliver.
Aside from the documented communication I didn't continue with Dr. Ogbu. I communicated what I had to Elcherre. I believe that I did some research into the venue as well.
Elcherre McMillan
Elcherre’s Promotions
5698 St. Thomas
Lithonia, GA 30058
201-844-4083
elcherrespromotions@gmail.com
Elcherre is the Founder of Elcherre’s Promotions, is a humanitarian, philanthropist and entrepreneur. Her wish is to provide opportunities for those that are less fortunate to become self-sufficient through their own talents or gifts, for example, boxing or sports.
In her words,
“I want to help them learn to fish not for a day , but for a lifetime.”
She is a licensed boxing and MMA manager, also a licensed matchmaker. Elcherre lived and worked in New York 25 years. She studied at ASA College in NY, NY and has as an Associates degree in Certified Pharmacy Technician.
“My goal is to change lives one at a time.”
I don't remember the circumstances but as far as I recall all the early events of 2022 failed for various reasons. In my mind it was poor planning, misunderstand of Middle East culture including Ramadan and just plain insufficient advance notice. I believe the failures included Women's Empowerment (cancelled), Mary Blige, Drake, and a Nigerian boxing event.
Janet Jackson was introduced into the picture as our main event in May of 2022 as I recall. She was going to take us to the promised land. There was much discussion/planing around signing her to do a Middle East tour through 3 countries, Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
I believe that sometime in August or thereabouts Elcherre flew up to New York (?) to meet with her and her agent. As I was not involved the business functions I never got a clear picture of what happened.
She told me that I would meet Janet Jackson. I told Elcherre that I would like to get some pictures (for the website) and also that I would like to do an interview. Elcherre assured me that both would happen.
Jerry is/was Elcherre's childrens' Father. He developed health problems including multiple strokes that created business distractions.
Promoter, Coach?
I believe he was to work with some local events in Georgia.
Jonquil has 20 years experience as a boxing promoter.
Jose was some guy who was expected to be an investor. I never got a clear picture of who referred him. At one point it seemed to be Allan, then Elcherre as well. I never got more than his first name.
Elcherre claimed that Allan and he were having secret conversations about investing and ostensibly taking over the business. Don't quote me exactly. Honestly, I don't know if he ever existed. It was suggested that they would band together their resources and invest and grab a majority share.
She let this leak to me and subsequently I came along as a silent investor. She did not want anyone else to know that I invested because they would be furious potentially resulting in resentment, anger, more dysfunction.
Fighter who signed with Elcherre when she visited Dubai, first trip I think. He became the model, the chosen one. I helped him many times with financial needs through sponsorship, donations, wires. The money help pay for various things including:
He was hurt terribly by her misleading him; fighting career certainly fractured.
Marsha Fry was invited by Echerre to be part of the team. She was working in Dubai at the time, much later moved back to America. At one point Elcherre paid her (probably my money) to do some research to help us in event planning in Dubai.
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Hello Elcherre,
I hope you are enjoying a lovely weekend.
Please find a condensed version of my bio and a picture attached for the website.
I am preparing the list and will share soon.
Speak soon
Mido was some sort of producer/promoter whom Elcherre connected with in Las Vegas. He was to help with some of the stateside productions with entertainers, fighters and fashion shows. Early in 2022 there were some discussions with him about how they might work together. There was even going to be a team event where we went to Las Vegas for a gathering. I don't remember the details, but like most everything else, this fell through. The date is estimated as April, 2022.
Oksana is a woman Elcherre met who lives in Dubai. She was to be part of the regular team. At one point Elcherre had me add her to the team page, then later had me disable Oksana. Later sometime around the failed Dubai trip she became important again. I think Oksana introduced Elcherre to another promoter who requested Elcherre's assistant in connecting him (the promoter) to celebrities for a planned event. This apparently evaporated.
Jonquil has 20 years experience as a boxing promoter.
Patrick was a boxing coach in Nigeria. He was in charge of coaching the Nigerian fighters. When at first I attempted to communicate with him to work on his team profile he appeared reluctant to work with me. There seemed to be a trust, no-trust relationship with Elcherre. I can't really explain this. This may have been focused around finances and pride, self-esteem. He didn't appear to have enough much to take care of himself and the fighters. Elcherre sent money a few times to help him/them. Later when I got involved I also sent a little money to help but nothing like I did for Mamadou.
HRH Hereditary and Crown Princess
Princess Joy was a connection, maybe FaceBook, who became a friend of Elcherre. She was to be part of the secondary team and on the website however Allan, I think Zagary and maybe Charles raised some objections due to the provacative way she dressed. They didn't want that kind of person representing us in public.
She is the owner/editor of Petrie Magazine and is based in California although on social media I think she was somewhere in Africa. She was to help with media, promotions, some other stuff.
She talked with me a few times over the phone however she was extremely reluctant to join in with the Zoom calls. She is protective of her privacy, not likely to be helpful in an way.
Elcherre referred to her as her Sister.
HRH Princess Joy - The World's First Royal in History to Hand-draw Original Hyperrealism Portraits Global Chief Marketing & Sales Partner (the Royal Artist with Eyes Like the Camera Lens™).
Qadree was Janet Jackson's gent and ultimately responsible for negotiations. Other than I believe sending me SMS snapshots regarding him I was never given contact info. The reason contact info was important was 1) I maintained the information and 2) I was responsible for maintaining the team page and he was to be listed on the page, not core, but listed.
Riddick Bowe Champ Camp?
Riddick Bowe, x heavyweight champion, was a personal friend of Elcherre. Like many fighters he life was in disarray financially. She wanted to get him involved, perhaps use his celebrity status, to help get the business going. There was a plan to organize training/boxing events to entice fighters to join. ‘Riddick Bowe Champ Camp’ was going to be one of the events put on through Elcherre's Promotions. This never took off.
In September of 2021 (or perhaps an earlier trip), Elcherre and Riddick went to Dubai where he was a celebrity at a boxing exhibition. This might be where Mamadou Barry entered the picture.
I don't have a clear picture of the first couple trips of hers to Dubai
Riddick Bowe A 2x Heavy Weight Champion boxer who competed between 1989 and 2008. He resigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion in 1992, and as an amateur he won a silver medal in the super heavyweight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Ross Sloan - Event/Show Production Coordinator
Sam is a friend of mine whom I met in California but also worked for me as a subcontractor with Sun Microsystems back around 1998. When we were attempting to find investors other than Allan, Charles and Jose we talked about creating an investor fact sheet, something that Allan was supposed to do but was slow or reluctant.
I emailed Sam and sent a copy of the investor fact sheet. He replied and surprisingly did some research and found that Elcherre had a legal warrant out for her for some incident. I asked her about this and she said something like it was old, dismissed. He also found that Charles Houston had been disbarred at one point.
Fortunately Sam chose not to invest. I approached several other of my friends who listened but chose not to invest.
----------------------------- Message from Elcherre -------------------
Elcherre,
One guy replied and did some background check on you and other info. He
found an outstanding warrant in Newton County, GA and is wondering
whether it was resolved.
He also commented, as we already know, that there is no track record of
success, no actual events having completed successfully.
--
Bob Meetin
www.dottedi.biz
303-926-0167
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Sam,
I don't have all the answers however I think she said something to me about Jamaica and mentioned the Royal family. No I did not dig. However she talked with me about a book she is writing about the Royal family (through the centuries) and such; some of this will be cleared up if/when the book gets published. I think she knows I want an autographed copy. If not I will probe a little deeper as we start to work more together.
About that Ferrari shop:
https://scuderiarampante.com/
I spoke with my neighbor who works there and he said that I could come by and take some pictures so long as I don't post them to the internet (careful of license plates). It's funny - I really love the shape of the early 80's 308 yet these days compared to my Porsche those cars are slow. And my car is slow compared to modern muscle cars and certain electric vehicles.
-B
On 6/18/22 2:39 PM, Sam Horrocks wrote:
Can you explain the Princess? This is another fishy-sounding thing to me. She's from Kingston, Jamaica, but according to Wikipedia, the current monarch of Jamaica is Queen Elizabeth the II. Is Petrie saying she's part of the British royal family? Or did she just one day declare herself to be some sort of royal? I don't understand any of it - it all looks like a scam to me.
Love ferraris- that sounds like a great tour. Would be great to drive one.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 9:47 AM Bob Meetin <bobm@dottedi.biz> wrote:
Sam,
Thank you greatly. You take the time and effort to investigate these things and that is greatly appreciated.
One by one - the business is not a charity however we tried to do a charity type event during the Christmas season to help support her fighters. Elcherre does have a non-profit however we are not doing anything with it at this time. Also one thing about working in the Middle East is that they are not high on charities so we had to minimalize this and focus more on assisting fighters to help themselves. It's a bit of a fine line.
You remember Princess Joy? Wow yes. Princess Joy is still working with us but we decided to remove her from the website due to political reasons. I've spoken with her several times, will certainly be working with her more in the future. For now we have to keep her in the background. She is an amazing person.
https://www.petriemagazineofficial.com/
https://www.facebook.com/petriemagazine
Elcherre is familiar with the warrant; it is something insignificant and it was dropped. I forwarded the link, not your email, suggested that she be prepared to defend the incident with an explanation.
P.S. When I bought my car in Texas I did a little research on the guy I bought it from. He also had a record but it appeared incidental. I talked with my bank about the safest way to handle the transaction. We both bank at Chase. We met at a Chase near his home outside Houston and followed the recommendations of my banker. But get this, when I was searching for the car I did come across a very elaborate scam. To make the purchase I was directed to an official-looking Edmunds website. They used edmunds in the sub-domain name to perpetrate the scam. It was smooth. I decided to contact Edmunds and they confirmed the scam. I tried to inform Google, but they really don't care. I posted the scam on my consumer website.
Track record - Yes absolutely and we have talked about this many many times. There have been a couple really insignificant boxing matches that were not worth posting. The Christmas fundraiser was too little too late. Other than my contribution we got next to nothing. Nice idea, poor untimely execution.
Until we have one of these events as history the website itself is static, lame. It will come alive after the JJ concert. I am pushing for us to get media, articles etc. and if humanly possible a candid personal interview with Janet. It absolutely frightens me the thought of interviewing a celebrity like her, I could imagine wilting in my feet. Haha.
Your observations are accurate. What we have with Janet Jackson is commitment from her and her representative/agent. Now we have to execute. I believe in this and I am laying it out to help with funding. Sometimes you have to gamble.
Anyway, we're still looking for investors but are really close to our goal.
You like Ferraris? A Ferrari repair shop opened up in Erie a few years back. My neighbor works there, invited me for a tour. Holy macarel! I visited the shop - it is absolutely huge with upwards of 60 Ferraris and some other vintage vehicles. New, classics everything. It's a car show in itself.
How is Sam doing?
Bob
On 6/16/22 7:28 PM, Sam Horrocks wrote:
Hi Bob. Last time you mentioned this it was a charity thing and I had some questions about that and you were going to look into those questions, but I don't know what happened with that. Now it seems to have changed from a charity to a business - not sure why.
There used to be some "Princess" on her staff (https://bio.prlog.org/Aristocracy/50008317-hrh-princess-joy-petrie.html) but I don't see her any more. The Princess thing looked very odd to me. I guess removing the Princess is an improvement at least.
I see that at one point (hopefully all in the past) Elcherre had an outstanding warrant in Newton County, GA. (http://www.newtonsheriffga.org/PDF/WARRANTS_032018.pdf). I would really want to know more about that and whether it was resolved before sending any money (not that it's any of my business, but I wouldn't send money unless I knew more).
It sounds like she's been doing these promotions for a while, but I don't see any evidence of actual events of hers taking place. I know there was Covid, but as far as I can tell there is zero track record of anything substantial. I assume she raised money last time when you emailed, but I wonder where that money went - it doesn't seem to have produced any real events that I can tell (I don't see any documentation of past fights, events, etc on her website). I see a lot of photos with celebrities, etc, but nothing real having taken place.
As you can probably guess, this all looks shady to me, and I'm not interested in sending money. I hope you're not offended if I advise you to be cautious. I wish you the best of luck,and hopefully I'm wrong and this will be a big success for you.
Sam
On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 9:07 PM Bob Meetin <bobm@dottedi.biz> wrote:
Hi Sam,
You remember around Christmas we shared some communications on the new
business I am working with? Well, it has taken a little longer than
anticipated, but we have some big things in motion.
My role started as web developer, yet I do other work for Elcherre, the
business owner, anything she needs to build the business.
We caught the ear of both Janet Jackson and Stevie Wonder and are in the
process of arranging a Janet Jackson tour in the Middle East beginning
the end of August and possibly a Stevie Wonder tour to follow. Preparing
for these events - marketing, advertising, and much more - costs money.
We have already raised some capital, could use a little more for comfort.
You know I'm not much of a salesman however I believe in the business
and am confident that it will be successful.
If you are interested and might like to invest we could talk or I could
put you in touch with the business owner. I attached an investor fact
sheet for more info.
Thanks for listening.
--
Bob Meetin
www.dottedi.biz
303-926-0167
Shovon Choudhury is a Freelance developer from Bangladesh whom I met through freelance.com and assisted me (for pay) on several projects. I asked him to join us and be part of the team as his amazing skills would be of great benefit. He was introduced in a zoom call but remained in the background after that. Other than being a great friend and willing to support me he would not be of much if any legal value.
Shovon is people-friendly programmer/web developer/software engineer who loves digging into and solving technical problems.
He got his B.Sc. from National University in Bangladesh and is pursuing his Master's from Jahangirnagar University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Shovon's Master's project is a Result Processing System which is suitable for use by college education departments. He is highly skilled in many programming languages.
Don't remember the original source but Sonja was to become our mental health specialist after graduation. Why bring this us? Elcherre had me investigating stuff which included contacting some local clinics.
I think her last name was Fields. She is Elcherre's cousin in Youngstown, Ohio. Elcherre attempted to recruit her to do some administrative work for the organization. Sonja did not have a workable computer so I grabbed an old one that I had and sent it to her. This was a major FAIL. She either didn't have the time or even low level skills to accomplish the work.
Elcherre then opted to enlist Sonja to take care of her children during the fateful Dubai trip which cost me over $2000. Elcherre paid Sonja's flight to Atlanta and Sonja brought my computer on the trip. I never did recover the computer.
Sonya, another friend of Elcherre, was a student when first introduced, I think behavioral health or similar. They talked and decided that she would be brought onboard after completing her education some months later. Sonya was to lead the Behavior Health part of the organization. Elcherre also had me doing research and locating brochures as resource for fighters in distress.
US Coach in NJ
I think maybe he was seen as someone who would manage a future boxing gym in New Jersey. Not much.
Elcherre's older brother. He was brought into the core team because he had connections in high places in various African countries. They rubbed badly frequently; he seemed to want power in the business, also seemed to want to use the business, concerts, etc to further his own business. Elcherre reported several times that he was a wife beater, one reason why she didn't like or respect him.
He works with Presidents, Ambassadors, political and social dignitaries to bridge the Global Community. As a liaison he works with these people to create economic investments for sustainable infrastructure growth and on social programs that create sustainable living conditions in underdeveloped nations with the goal to build social and educational institution.
Zagery studied at Queens College, NY. He assists in International, Racial and Cultural Affairs to find solutions to break those barriers.