Born Jamerican, Suzan McDowell is the Founder, President & CEO of Circle of One Marketing, a Miami-based, minority-owned full-service marketing agency with expertise in African American and Caribbean consumer markets. Suzan has spent her professional career in marketing and media, “making her clients popular”. She brings a wealth of experience in conceptualizing and executing successful marketing and promotional campaigns in local, national, and International markets. She has built brands like the incredibly successful Jazz in the Gardens and OneUnited Bank, the largest Black-owned bank in America, among hundreds of other high profile, high impact clients and projects. Her public relations and event management efficacy and expansive personal network is widely documented throughout South Florida and well beyond.

McDowell is a true visionary, a natural comedian, a wordsmith with a lot of words, frequently tangential, has twice rappelled down 19 floors to raise money for under privileged kids and, most importantly, she is the proud mother of her polar opposite, Sydney Alicia, her surprisingly calm and well-adjusted daughter.