Adenah Bayoh

New Jersey entrepreneur Adenah Bayoh has built her American dream by acquiring a multi-million dollar real estate portfolio and restaurant ventures. Bayoh came to the United States at the age of 13. She escaped the civil war in Liberia and set out on a mission to create a better life for herself. After attending a public high school in Newark, New Jersey and putting herself through Fairleigh Dickinson University where she earned a degree in Business Management, she secured a job in banking and began purchasing multi-family homes as investments. After mastering the process of buying, selling, and renting properties, she transitioned into real estate development. In 2012, she entered a partnership to transform the former Irvington General Hospital site into a residential and retail community. Bayoh has now amassed a $220 million real estate development portfolio of commercial and residential properties in New Jersey. Bayoh used the profits generated from her real estate ventures to fund her goals of opening an IHOP in New Jersey. At 27, she became one of the youngest IHOP franchisees in the United States. By 2010, her IHOP franchise was one of the most profitable in the Northeast. Bayoh now owns and operates multiple IHOP franchises all over New Jersey. In 2017, Bayoh teamed up with a friend and opened her own restaurant, Cornbread, in Maplewood, New Jersey. In 2019, she partnered with Walmart to expand her signature line of restaurants to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with locations in Walmart stores in West Mifflin, Greensburg, and Tarentum. In 2015, she was appointed to the Advisory Council on Small Business and Agriculture for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York