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Henna Inam is the CEO of Transformational Leadership Inc., a company focused on helping women leaders transform their businesses, creating great innovation, engagement, and growth in their organizations and communities.
As an Executive Coach and Consultant to organizations developing their female talent, Henna brings the General Management and Marketing expertise she gained from her 20 years running P&L’s, and working in companies like Procter & Gamble and Novartis. What sets her apart is that she has walked in the shoes of the C-Suite women she coaches. She has the experience of having lived/worked in 7 countries across 3 continents. She is a frequent speaker and moderator on key drivers of engaging and retaining women leaders. Henna is a guest lecturer at Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business. Clients include entrepreneur CEO’s and high potential women in Fortune 500 companies and professional services firms.

In her corporate career, Henna built strong businesses and teams at Novartis and Procter & Gamble. She held several C-Suite roles such as Chief Marketing Officer, and President of the Americas for Ciba Vision. Her accomplishments at Novartis include running over $500MM P&L and running organizations as large as 600 people. At Procter & Gamble she helped drive multi-billion dollar global brands like Pampers, Always, and Charmin.
Henna is committed to several non-profits. She is on the Board of Counselors for Carter Center, the Advisory Board of DIL (a non-profit educating 16,000 girls in Pakistan) and the Board of Georgia Women’s Forum. She has also been selected as a Mentor for the State Dept & Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Program. Henna got her MBA from the Wharton School and attended Executive Education programs at the Harvard Business School.

http://www.transformleaders.tv/

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Jennifer Whitaker, Founder

Jennifer Whitaker is a Business Strategist and Executive Coach with a lifelong passion for helping people to discover their unique brilliance and reach their highest potential. With over 25 years of experience in a blend of counseling, management and ownership positions, Jennifer understands first-hand the unique dynamics of high-performing cultures. Using this foundation of experience, she empowers and supports her clients in discovering their unique inner brilliance that yields outstanding results in life and work.

Jennifer, as Founder and CEO of Executive Brilliance, an Executive Coaching and business consultancy, assists CEOs to be highly successful as a leader in their workplace, as well as their own life. Her work blends a powerful skill set that can remedy a host of issues an organization faces in their quest for high-performance. Jennifer’s specific areas of expertise include leadership development, management transition and interpersonal effectiveness.

Jennifer has a Master’s Degree in counseling from Auburn University, is a certified business coach through the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (WABC) and holds an additional master’s and doctorate degree in related fields. Although Jennifer values her educational achievements, what she cherishes most is her family – her husband, Michael, their son Justin and their 4-legged four pound bundle of joy named Samson.

Supporting her lifelong passion of helping others, giving back to the community is a major emphasis for Jennifer. She serves on the United Way Capital Campaign and is involved in Relay for Life and United Way Women’s Legacy. She is a graduate of Leadership Gwinnett Program and serves on the Board of Directors of Dekalb Chamber of Commerce, Christian City, and United Way for Gwinnett.

http://executivebrilliance.com/

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About WorldCommodity Fund

The WorldCommodity Fund(tm) takes a global approach, looking for opportunities in natural resources by investing in equities of commodity-related companies involved in the agriculture, energy, and metals sectors. The Fund’s portfolio is managed by McConnell Asset Management, LLC, a registered investment advisory firm based in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 2004, McConnell is dedicated to creating a family of commodity-oriented and natural resource-based mutual funds, the WorldCommodity Funds.

http://www.worldcommodityfunds.com/

James Llewellyn.  Mr. Llewellyn has served as a Director and President of the Fund since inception in 2006.  Mr. Llewellyn is the founder of McConnell Asset Management, LLC, the investment adviser to the Fund, and currently serves as Managing Member, Portfolio Manager, and Chief Compliance Officer of the firm.  As a private investor, from 1999-2004, Mr. Llewellyn was a non-managing member, and minority shareholder of Beeland Management Company, LLC (the sponsor of the Rogers Funds).  Beeland was established and founded by James Beeland Rogers, Jr., its then majority shareholder, to create investment products designed to track the performance of the RICI..  Beeland successfully launched the world s first products tracking the performance of the RICI.     which were offered to institutions and individual investors in the United States.  Mr. Llewellyn also served as an observer on the 2005 Index Committee of the Rogers International Commodity Index..  Before founding the Adviser in 2004, he worked as a Private Client Consultant at E*TRADE Securities, LLC where he held the series 7, 63 and 65 licenses.  As a financial consultant at Merrill Lynch Futures, Inc. he held a FINRA series 3 license and was a member of the National Futures Association.  Mr Llewellyn began his career in Taipei, Taiwan and has more than 15 years experience in financial services, including work as a portfolio manager for a private investment partnership, Red Rock Partners, L.P.

Mr. Llewellyn s Role with the RICI and Beeland Management Company Beeland Management Company, LLC, ( BMC  or Beeland ) is an Illinois limited liability company, commodity pool operator, general partner and sponsor of the Rogers Funds (Rogers Raw Materials Fund, LP, Rogers International Raw Materials Fund, LP, Rogers Raw Materials International Fund, LP).  BMC was established and founded by James Beeland Rogers, Jr., its then majority shareholder, to create investment products designed to track the performance of the RICI..  BMC successfully launched the world s first products tracking the performance of the RICI.     private separate accounts, private funds, and a public commodity pool which were offered to institutions and individual investors in the United States.  From 1999-2004, as a private investor, Mr. Llewellyn participated in BMC as a minority shareholder, and non-managing member of BMC.  From December 2004 through March 2005, at the request of Mr. Rogers, minority shareholders and the officers of BMC – McConnell Asset Management, LLC and its principal, James Llewellyn provided consulting services to BMC; including a review of its administration, operations, and distribution of the Rogers Funds.  In connection with this role, Mr. Llewellyn also served as an observer on the 2005 Index Committee of the Rogers International Commodity Index..  Since March 2005, the Adviser, and Mr. Llewellyn have not been affiliated with BMC

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