Agapito Morgan & Dale Johnson: USPA Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee

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OUTSIDE THE BOARDS PODCAST
SEASON #2 | EPISODE #9: Agapito Morgan & Dale
Johnson
RECORDED: April 15th, 2022

On this Episode of Outside The Boards, I’m incredibly excited to
welcome all of you to this Episode of Outside The Boards Podcast
and introduce my next guests Mr. Agapito Morgan and Dale Johnson,
Chairman and Committee Member of the United States Polo
Association’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.


 Aga Morgan currently serves as the Commercial Healthcare
Leader with Key Bank. In this role, he is focused on growing
Key’s national commercial banking healthcare business in
collaboration with healthcare industry coverage teams within
KeyBanc Capital Markets, Enterprise Healthcare Payments and
Consumer Banking. Additionally, he serves as Co-Chair of the
Commercial Bank’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council and as
a member of the Bank’s Commercial Credit Risk Committee.


 Aga is originally from Washington D.C. and now lives in
Weston Connecticut. His path in polo begin 8 years ago when he
was introduce to polo by a close friend. Not knowing what he was
getting into he took a lesson at Yale University. The first time
he hit the ball clean, he was hooked. He would go on to immerse
himself into the sport. Today, Morgan is a member of the Yale
Polo Club, but has played extensively around the country.


 Dale Johnson is currently the Manager of Global Platforms
for Visa ,and is the Founder of the Equine Chain. A company
created to credential horses on the blockchain. Dale is
from  Oakland California, and recently returned to his
hometown after living in San Francisco’s Bay Area. Dale’s
involvement with horses and ultimately polo began generations
earlier with his grandfather who was as a horseman on a cattle
ranch north of Houston, his grandfather, Papa Charlie, who was
slave from Georgia, founded the ranch with his wife Penny.
Everyone up until Dale’s grandfather was born on the ranch. All
the fundamentals of horsemanship never left and trickled down to
Dale’s father and ultimately him. Dale’s introduction to polo
came from a visit to Buneas Aires and the purchase of pair of
polo boots. He came home and spent his first bonus on a polo
clinic. But unlike hiting a ball or the thrill


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