Meet the Leadership

I am originally from and was raised in the Greater New Orleans, LA, USA, and was born in Metairie, LA, USA. I graduated from Believer's Life Christian Academy in Gretna, LA, and later attended Nicholls State University, in Thibodaux, LA, earning an associate degree in general studies, Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge, LA earning bachelor's degree in general studies with minors in history, political science, and sociology, and Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA, earning a Master's degree in Social Sciences with a concentration in History, and later began doctoral studies for a Ph.D. in public policy, public finance concentration. In my academic studies I switched majors from being an accounting major to being a social science major both in my undergraduate and graduate experience, after completing a significant amount of business and accounting courses, I often found that social and political problems may both compliment and/or overlap business problems. Over the years, I have worked various roles, such as, as a retail manager, insurance agent, realtor, specialist in state government, a social studies teacher, and as a University History Instructor. I still hold an active insurance license, and Bookkeeper, Payroll, Tax, QuickBooks Certifications, and open and interesting in general and continuous learning in business, and in many different fields. In addition, to doing this, I also work to run a for profit private equity and venture capital fund called All American Investment Ventures LLC-www.allamericaninvestmentventures.com, similar type of work, but for-profit, and the World Investment Fund- www.worldinvestmentfund.org.

Jeremy Whitley was born and raised in northern Michigan’s lower peninsula. He worked as a laborer at St. Mary’s cement plant to pay his way through the first two years of attending North Central Michigan College before transferring to the University of Hawaii at Manoa where he obtained B.A. in Economics and Peace. Jeremy would continue his academic career by gaining an LL.M. in international human rights from the National University of Ireland.

He has held various analytical research positions including as an acknowledged Financial Market researcher in Ph.D. Meisnner Second Edition of “Correlation Risk Modeling and Management”. And has previous non-profit experience overseeing the research operations of Project Votes Smarts elections monitoring office.

Jeremy has defined his philosophy for economic development as following a holistic strategy, which measures the success of economic development projects on how they increase the well-being of people and communities.

Outside of his professional and academic pursuits, Jeremy spends his time playing music, reading philosophy, training in martial arts, and spending time in nature.