| Dr.
Gloria B. Herndon, President and CEO of GB Herndon & Associates as well as
the Chairperson of the
American and African Business Women's Alliance (AABWA),
recently joined the
Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) Headquarters Board
of Directors. Dr. Herndon's area of focus as a member of the SIFE
Headquarters Board of Directors will be to increase the awareness of SIFE
among key groups in the USA and Africa. As a first step, she will engage
her vast network of academic and business contacts to become involved in
SIFE national and international events and activities on the African
Continent and the USA. Founded in 1975, SIFE is a global non-profit
organization improving the quality of life and standard of living around
the world by teaching the principles and values of free market economics
and entrepreneurship. Working in partnership with hundreds of universities
and businesses, SIFE organizes, motivates, and trains college and
university students to form "management teams" that design, develop and
implement thousands of community-based micro-business, training and
educational projects to create and expand economic opportunities through
hands-on and practical training projects. Last year alone SIFE programs,
which operate in over 1,700 colleges and universities in forty-seven
countries, sponsored well over 5,000 community-based business development
and training/educational projects worldwide. |
| The
SIFE World Headquarters Board of Directors is composed of some of the
world's leading business figures, many of whom are personally involved
with investing much of their time and resources into SIFE as well as
attending the annual events and aggressively recruiting SIFE students and
sponsors. Included among the more than two hundred of the world's leading
business executives are: Robert Rich, Jr., President,
Rich's Products
Corporation and SIFE Board Chairman; Doug McMillon, President & CEO,
Sam's
Club; Janice Bryant Howroyd, Chairperson & CEO,
ACT-1 Group; John Studzinski, CEO,
HSBC Corporate Investment Banking; Harry Alford,
President & CEO,
National Black Chamber of Commerce; Herbert Smith,
Chairman,
H.C. Smith Ltd/Smith International Enterprises; Guillaume Bastiaens, Vice Chairman,
Cargill; Doug Conant, CEO,
Campbell Soup; Tom
Moser, Vice Chairman,
KPMG; Leonard Roberts, Executive Chairman of
RadioShack; Daniel Amos, Chairman & CEO,
Aflac Inc.; Martin Sullivan,
President & CEO,
AIG; Seamus McBride,
USA-Colgate Palmolive; Paul Riley,
Chairman & CEO,
Korn Ferry International; and David Bernauer, Chairman &
CEO,
Walgreens. |
