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Rohan Freeman

Freeman Companies and 7 Summits
Adventurer, Mountaineer and Entrepreneur, President and CEO
Rohan A. Freeman, PE, LS is President and CEO of Hartford-based, multi-disciplinary engineering firm Freeman Companies. Rohan , an accomplished mountaineer, founded the company shortly after summiting Mount Everest with a promise to clients to “Elevate Your Expectations”.  This award-winning, integrated engineering, design, and environmental services practice has led several significant infrastructure and development projects.  The company has thrived since its inception twelve years ago - in 2009 - allowing Rohan to subsequently launch 7 Summits Realty in 2014 and 7 Summits Construction in 2016.  The success of the Freeman enterprise has enabled it to advance several major social responsibility goals.

Rohan is a popular motivational speaker and board member of multiple community and charitable organizations, including Connecticut Landmarks, The Bushnell, the University of Saint Joseph, the Connecticut Business and Industries Association and national board of Outward Bound where he serves as Vice Chair. In 2014 he established UCONN School of Engineering’s “Freeman Companies BRIDGE Endowed Engineering Scholarship” to support minority students interested in engineering who have overcome socioeconomic and educational obstacles. Rohan is included among select alumni to be inducted into the UCONN School of Engineering’s Academy of Distinguished Engineers. In 2018, Rohan was recognized as the Hartford Business Journal’s “Small Firm CEO of the Year”, and in February of 2021, was cited as one of Connecticut’s “Power 50”.

Most recently, Governor Lamont appointed Mr. Freeman to serve on the Governor’s Workforce Council, tasked with setting strategy and policy for the state’s Pre-K through retirement workforce pipeline, and to serve as the prime coordinator for businesses, educators, trainers, state agencies, state workforce boards, non-profits, and others. The primary goal of the Governor’s Workforce Council is to ensure that Connecticut maintains the most accessible, equitable, aligned and high-quality workforce pipeline in the country, ensuring the state’s workforce remains agile through curricula and programming that is responsive to the needs of the 21st century economy. The GWC partners with K-12, post-secondary, employers, and regional workforce boards to coordinate workforce policy and programs and ensure the overall strategy is reflective of the needs of the different areas of the state.

Rohan was the first African-American to climb the Seven Summits (the highest mountains on all seven continents) and complete the Adventurer’s Grand Slam (the Seven Summits along with both the north and south poles). He recently accomplished the challenging “Mission Impossible” - climbing the Eiger, Matterhorn and Mont Blanc - 3 of the Alps most renowned, iconic peaks. And “for fun”, spent a week in the Sahara Desert running the six-day ultramarathon known as the Marathon des Sables, which covers 251 kilometers (or approximately the distance of six regular marathons). Through his philosophy of ‘Living a Life Less Ordinary” Rohan shares the surprising, entertaining, and at times terrifying, tale of his journey from life as a young boy in Jamaica to becoming one of the world’s premier mountaineers and endurance athletes, and most importantly, the many extraordinary lessons for living a life “less ordinary” that he has learned along the way. With every ascent and every mile informed by uncommon insights, Rohan’s experience helps us to identify our own metaphorical “Everest” and to conquer it.

As an accomplished adventurer, mountaineer and entrepreneur, Rohan Freeman believes deeply that we all can and should “Live a Life Less Ordinary” by challenging ourselves and living lives of compassion and service.
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