BNP Advisory Group

BNP Advisory Group | Business • Networks • Purpose

Strategy & Impact Agency with a 360° Perspective

With over 30 years of leadership at the intersection of business strategy, partnerships, and impact, Nikoa Evans is an award-winning strategist, speaker, and thought leader who helps visionary entrepreneurs architect enterprises where commercial success and cultural legacy are inseparable. As founder of BNP Advisory Group (Business • Networks • Purpose), Evans brings a rare 360-degree perspective on the entrepreneurial ecosystem, having operated at every level of the value chain. From retail developer sourcing and negotiating national brand expansions (Nicole Miller, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Steve Madden), to investment director funding retail and restaurant ventures during Harlem's early commercial revitalization, to 6x entrepreneur (flagship NYC specialty retail store, co-owner of two restaurants leading marketing strategy and activations with media influencers including Cicely Tyson, Kevin Hart, and Tamron Hall, and 16 years as nonprofit director producing business development platforms and scaling strategies), to community ecosystem builder as founder of the Harlem Local Vendor Program, a supplier accelerator in collaboration with Columbia Business School and Whole Foods Market serving 250+ CPG founders, Evans understands what it takes to build, finance, scale, and sustain businesses because she's done it herself. This full-spectrum experience is what sets BNP Advisory Group apart. Evans doesn't just advise entrepreneurs, she's been the entrepreneur, the financier, the landlord, the community advocate, and the ecosystem builder.