Mildred Drake was a highly successful businesswoman and entrepreneur. Her life journey evolved, seven years after the first World War, from her birth place in Huntsville, Alabama, through the agricultural fields in Huntsville. The Economic boom of post-World War II called for the Great Migration and establishment of Hereford Construction in Nashville, Tennessee. She transitioned from a full-time employee at General Motors in Detroit, Michigan, and a full-time real estate investor in Michigan and Georgia, to becoming a successful business woman involved in international business.

 

Exposed to business, hard labor and social injustice from birth, Mrs. Drake was always dedicated to achieving excellence. Her business spirit was inspired through the legacy of her partnership with her brothers, the late Charles Homer Hereford and Richard Hereford Jr. Both brothers were business pioneers, philanthropists and co-owned Hereford Construction Company with Mildred. 

 

Her first real exposure to high finance was between 1978 and 1989 in which she participated in a series of international partnerships and syndications. From that experience, Mrs. Drake began to recruit her children and other family members to manage her investments and pursue other educational opportunities. She did this so that they would be well versed in economics and finance to thereby establish and maintain wealth for her family in the generations to follow. 

 

Mildred raised her 5 children into becoming formidable business and development partners, with children and grandchildren whom

collectively possess dynamic and multi-faceted business management and financing capabilities.

 

Eager to make a difference in the lives of individuals worldwide, Mildred was heavily into providing economic, education and social opportunities to those that are under privileged and have otherwise been overlooked by society worldwide. To this end, Mildred incorporated the expansion and development of areas assigned the designation as the "Third World" into MDFT's mandate.

 

Her contributions to the third world represent her profound vision of how the world should be viewed as one whole with equal 

opportunity for all those that live in it. She was a force to be reckoned with and will be missed dearly.

 

May she rest in peace.