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13 January 2003
Tara Kimbrell Cole, Chief Executive Officer
Global Trade Finance Network Pte. Ltd.
NAMED WHARTON FELLOW
Philadelphia, PA - Tara Kimbrell Cole, C.E.O., Global Trade Finance
Network Pte. Ltd. has been officially inducted into the Society of
Fellows at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Wharton
Fellows is a high-level network of senior executives, Wharton faculty,
and other leading experts. The focus of the network is to provide real-time
decision support and identify new opportunities for personal and business
transformation by combining an exclusive business peer network with
research-based thought leadership.
Tara Kimbrell Cole is the founder and CEO of Global Trade Finance
Network Pte. Ltd. Ms. Cole is a serial entrepreneur and early mover
in recognizing and assessing opportunities, and delivering creative
solutions that later became widely adopted.
Limited to a small group of talented senior executives, the Wharton
Fellows network includes extensive research projects, academic-industry
partnerships, and an online community. This post-MBA program serves
to help senior executives make sense of and identify key opportunities
from continuous change, addressing the balance between the need to
meet current financial expectations and find long-term growth engines
that lead to increased shareholder value.
Fellows were chosen on the basis of their leadership track record
and potential, management recommendations, references. Upon completion
of the two foundations on-site sessions on the Wharton campus in Philadelphia
and at Wharton West in San Francisco, participants are inducted into
the Wharton Society of Fellows, to continue lifelong interaction with
each other and the school.
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized
around the world for its academic strengths across every major discipline
and at every level of business education. Founded in 1881 as the first
collegiate business school in the nation, Wharton has approximately
4,600 undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral students, more than 8,000 participants
in its executive education programs annually, and an alumni network
of more than 75,000 worldwide. www.wharton.upenn.edu
GTFNet is a Financial Services Company that facilitates international
trade by removing barriers to the financing of exports, not only between
OECD and non-OECD member countries, but also between emerging markets.
www.TradeFinanceNetwork.com
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