Leila C. Jenkins

Ms. Jenkins has worked as a global money manager and investment analyst for the past twenty-seven years.
Before joining Locke, she was President and Head of Research at Whitehorne & Co., a global investment management and research boutique.
Prior to that, she was at the Bankers Trust Company from 1986 to 1991, finishing as Head of Emerging Markets Investment Management in New York.
She also worked in London in Global Investment Management and Strategic Planning as a management consultant creating BT Securities, BT Brokerage and the Equity Underwriting Group.
Before joining Bankers Trust, Ms. Jenkins founded Shields & Company, a NYSE member firm, and its subsidiaries, Capital Management Associates, an investment advisory firm, and Shields Associates, an investment consulting firm, with four other professionals in 1982.
While at those firms she lived in New York and Australia and worked extensively in Asia.
Ms. Jenkins also held positions at Chemical Bank as a Senior Research Analyst in New York and the Bank of Boston as an International Economist in Boston, Brazil and Argentina.
Ms. Jenkins recently served as an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, teaching a course in International Consulting.
Ms. Jenkins holds a BA degree in Economics from Boston College and an MPA degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she studied the impact of global public policy on the world's financial markets.
Ms. Jenkins also completed an Executive International Finance program at the Colgate Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.