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Ingrid E. Hutt

Owner & CEO

Overview

Previously, she was the Majority Owner & CEO of 2 professional basketball teams with The Basketball League (TBL) “South Bay Flash” (Located in LA County) & “Santa Ana Thunder” (Located in Bernalillo County of Albuquerque, New Mexico). Hutt has also partnered with the Native American Indigenous tribe, Santa Ana Pueblo of New Mexico. Hutt also established in 2023 “The Basketball Legacy Group” which is an extended arm to showcase young athletes to the G League & Euro League. In 2024, Hutt created a partnership with TVK24, a Korean Language network broadcaster and TV Station located in Los Angeles, California, serving the Korean American community with channels tailored to their interest and needs. In 2020, Hutt also helped to create The California Black Women’s Collective, an empowerment institute that develops impactful programs aimed at dismantling systems barriers throughout the state.

Hutt has an extensive history in Marketing that ranges from her background in Real Estate where Hutt was a Mortgage underwriter for 15 years and won performance awards from Banks and Mortgage Companies in Southern California to her more recent endeavor, Hutt has had such prestigious clients as NAACP National Board, The Los Angeles Sentinel, GEM Communications, Brotherhood Crusade, Dancing Classrooms of Los Angeles, New Connections, Assembly Member Mike Davis, Assembly Member and now Senator Isadore Hall III, Senator Ricardo Lara, Councilman / Former Mayor Danny Tabor, City Clerk (Inglewood), Mayor Aja Brown (Compton) The Gas Companies Advanced Meter Outreach Project, Los Angeles County Democratic Party, US Senator Barbara Boxer, CA State Controller John Chiang and the list goes on. Hutt has structured branding strategies for some of the Los Angeles’ greatest events i.e.: NAACP National Board transition of Power Event, L.A. City opening Ceremonies for Black History Month, Los Angeles Kings Black History Month Celebration, Taste of Soul, Compton Summer Soul Jam, Brotherhood Crusade Annual Dinner, New Connections and CPUC Women in Diversity Awards Dinner, 48th Assembly District Living Legends Awards as well as building marketing and advertising campaigns for the Los Angeles County Recorder’s office “VOTE LA”, L.A. Cities Clean Air- Clear Water, CFSA, California Redistricting, critical outreach to pass the “Durbin Bill” a federal bill that gives credit card fee reduction to businesses and the South Coast Air Quality Control District outreach campaign. Hutt also worked on the Prince 2011 tour, 2011 NBA All-Star weekend bash for the NBA Retired Players Association in Los Angeles. In 2012 Hutt worked on the DL Hughley comedy during the 2012 DNC, a night with Grammy Award winner KEM during DNC and Los Angeles African American Women’s Public Policy Institute as well as co- producing the Balboa Music Festival.

During the 2012 reelection campaign for President Obama, Hutt received the highest honor of being chosen as a Political Leader Delegate for the state of California without holding an elected office. In 2013 Hutt worked on the Eric Garcetti for Los Angeles Mayor Campaign and won by a landslide. In January 2013 Hutt was named President of the Watch Me Win Foundation. In 2015 Hutt was appointed by Mayor Garcetti as a Commissioner to the LA Convention and Exhibition Center Authority where Hutt served on the sub-committee of “Bonds and Finance.” During the 2016 June Primary Hutt was chosen to produce several “Hillary for America” campaign Rally’s in Los Angeles County. Additionally, Hutt has consulted to make history placing our newly elected Los Angeles County Sheriff, Alex V to beat the incumbent – never done since 1972. After completing her education Hutt worked for Ford USA where she was the liaison for California’s Black Dealership Owners and is proud to say that she convinced Mandela’s Delegation to allow FORD’s Black owned Dealerships in Southern California (a company that didn’t divest in South Africa) to provide the cars for the Motorcade for Nelson Mandela’s first visit to Southern California shortly after the end of Apartheid. In 2002 Hutt was the Political Advisor for the California Realist where Her and a team of African American Real Estate Brokers championed the Predatory Lending Law protecting the minority community from outrageous fees and rates. Hutt soon became a member of New Frontier Democratic Club where she served two terms as President of New Frontier Democratic Club the oldest and largest African American Democratic Club in the state.