Our Founder


Daleela Farina has worked with charitable organizations such as New York Cares, Lions Club, Project Migration, Hands On Disaster Response, Faces of Kibera and Victory Church and decided to create her own after many trips to Africa and Asia.

While witnessing the immense poverty and underdeveloped economic conditions in Kenya firsthand, she was inspired to develop a network of professionals eager to effect change. After studying finance at Stony Brook University in New York, Daleela intends to focus on micro financing and building long term business strategies with Kenyan entrepreneurs. "We will help them every step of the way, through advising, product development, distribution, exposure and management." She then spent the month of January 2010 in Kenya at Hekima Place orphanage teaching Kenyan orphans and overseeing Care For Kenya's first project, 'Nolcha Cares' which successfully debuted at New York Fashion Week 2010.

Daleela is a writer for AOL Finance, interviewing financiers and covering conferences such as the World Business Forum, Web 2.0, Traders Expo, and the Hedge Fund Summit to name a few. In her spare time Daleela enjoys learning languages, volunteering and traveling.


Our Board of Directors


Jennifer Johnson, CEO of Hashtag Media, works with brands, startups, celebrities, advertising and charities launch and optimize their Twitter presence. She developed and sold the first internet dating community, LavaLife. She is a first round investor in Twitter. She was a first round investor in Postini, acquired by Google for $600m. She was a co-founder of LesConcierges, the largest provider of assistance-based loyalty solutions. She created green retailer EthicL. She launched and ran the business development group of Live365 streaming radio. Prior to the internet, Jennifer was an investment banker with Merrill Lynch and UBS in structured finance for Fortune 50 corporations. She has a Columbia Business School MBA and a BS from The Wharton School, University of Penn. Jennifer also helps early-stage internet companies via PitchCapital. Her companies have raised over $50 million in investment capital.
 
Elizabeth Ziemba is the President of the non-profit organization, SHARED, dedicated to improving the health of people living in poverty through increased accessed to medicines and medical care. She is also a Senior Associate with Stackpole & Associates, a marketing, market research and organizational development consulting company. Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dickinson College, a law degree from Suffolk University Law School and a Masters degree in Public Health from Boston University. Her book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Giving Back was recently published by Penguin Books.
 
Ariane Sommer is a published author, columnist and European TV personality. Her latest books include a guide on etiquette and style Die Benimm Bibel aka "The Bible of Behavior" and Foreign Affairs, a collection of 34 short stories. Additionally, Ariane has published short stories in German VOGUE and BLANK magazine. Ariane has been a featured as both a regular and guest columnist for European periodicals such as InStyle, max, Cosmopolitan, Playboy, MODE, Celebrity and BILD. Presently she is writing a column for the British/Chinese publication China Ethos. At the young age of merely eight weeks the self-proclaimed "child of the world" moved from Bonn, Germany to Sierra Leone, Africa, beginning the first of her many global adventures due to her father's position as a German Ambassador. His representation abroad allowed her to experience living in Africa, India, Spain, United States, France, United Kingdom and, of course, Germany. Ariane benefited from this international exposure by learning to both appreciate and respect the differences these varying cultures portrayed and was instilled with a deep sense of awareness and responsibility towards the human family. One of her greatest concerns is tolerance and acceptance, as demonstrated by the following mantra of her work: “We don’t have to be alike to get a long.”
 
Neal Berger has been a Global Macro trader for more than 15 years and has been in the hedge fund business for more than 14 years. Neal is also the Founder and Director of Eagle’s View Fund, Ltd. a Fund of Funds and Advisory business investing in ‘niche-oriented’ hedge funds. Neal is also the President of MQS Asset Management, LLC a quantitative global macro hedge fund.

Prior to founding Eagle’s View and MQS, Neal was the Founder and Director of multi-strategy Fund, Apogee Fund, Ltd. and New Edge, Ltd. collectively managing more than $150 Million. Neal had previously been employed as a Global Macro trader at $10 Billion New York-based Millennium Partners.

Neal has allocated capital to hedge funds on behalf of a wealthy family and has also been employed as a Vice President of Proprietary Trading with Chase Manhattan Bank and Fuji Bank in New York. Neal started his career as a Financial Analyst at Morgan Stanley.
 
Michael Covel passionately teaches the lessons of the great traders who have made their fortunes over the last four decades. His subject of choice is an obscure trading style called “trend following trading” that has produced untold millionaires and a few billionaires. It is a style of trading ignored by the mainstream press, all universities and much of Wall Street. Michael is now considered the point person on trend following trading. In 1996 Michael co-launched a website titled TurtleTrader.com® Following on the success of TurtleTrader®, Michael published his first book Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets. Michael’s second book The Complete TurtleTrader: The Legend, the Lessons, the Results is different. It is the definitive behind the scenes look at a real life trading legend. Following his two books Michael directed his debut documentary film Broke. It premiered on ‘The Documentary Channel’ in October 2009. It explores human behavior (read: behavioral finance) during the 2007-2009 market crash.
 
Danielle Park is a Chartered Financial Analyst, portfolio manager, attorney, published finance author, columnist, keynote speaker and North American television personality. She is the author of the best selling myth-busting book "Juggling Dynamite: An insider's wisdom on money management, markets and wealth that lasts," as well as a popular daily financial blog: www.jugglingdynamite.com.

Danielle worked as a litigator until 1997 when she was recruited to work for an international securities firm. In 2003 she co-founded Venable Park Investment Counsel Inc. www.venablepark.com, an independent money management company of which she is President. In recent years Danielle has been writing, speaking and educating industry professionals as well as investors on the risks and realities of investment behaviors.

Over the past 20 years Danielle has served on several not-for-profit boards and committees including Student Legal Aid, The Elizabeth Fry Society, Rotary and several community arts organizations. A member of the internationally recognized CFA Institute and the Law Society of Upper Canada, Danielle is an avid health and fitness buff as well as a passionate and insightful speaker on money management, wisdom and the art of work/life balance.
 
Gregg Morton currently works for Citigroup Global Capital Markets division in New York City as an analyst. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky with both a BBA in finance and a BS in economics. In addition to his work at Citigroup, Gregg serves as the director of brand management for the newly launched financial products rating website, Investimonials.com. To further his career, Gregg began pursuing the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and will be sitting for Level I. While an undergraduate, Gregg worked for Western & Southern Financial Group providing financial services for the Lexington, Kentucky area.



Attorney


Dan Halper, an expert in business law both real property and intellectual property has worked for famous companies such as Viacom, Vornado, K-mart, Aeropostale and Mark Ecko Brands and some of the most famous law firms such as Skadden Arps, Proskauer Rose and Sullivan and Cromwell. Dan was one of the founders of Cyberpax, a software company that developed the world's most advanced vector tracing software in the mid 1990's. In 1999 he illustrated and published a compendium of his poems the Language Pasta of a Yiddish Rasta. While attending Brooklyn Law School, in 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, he helped organize community groups around Ground Zero to demand an effective clean up policy. He takes care of six disabled people for the New York State Supreme Court. His passion is the relationship between shape geometry and the human computer interface.