Rendeavour is Africa’s largest new city builder with 30,000 acres of satellite city developments in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia and Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is creating infrastructure, industrial zones, housing, offices, schools and hospitals to help sustain and accelerate Africa’s economic growth and meet the aspirations of the continent’s burgeoning middle class.

For six years Preston was vice president for strategy and director of communications at Russian Standard Corporation, one of the world’s largest vodka producers and a leading private consumer bank in Russia.

From 1993 to 2006 Preston was a producer and correspondent for NBC News covering global events in the Soviet successor states, Europe, Central and South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.