Leadership
Leela Rao
Chairman and Chief Executive officer
Senior Vice President
1031 & TIC Investments LLC
Leela Rao is Chairman and CEO of the Priyanka Foundation. Since it’s initiation in Oct 2007, the Priyanka foundation a global organization, has worked with hundreds of Terminally and Chronically ill children in India. As its founder and volunteer, Leela has worked at increasing the awareness of Child life concept in India, along with expanding and strengthening its global programming, fundraising and working with strategic global partners, raising awareness for this global need by being a spokesperson in several forums including addressing a chapter meeting for the US Department of Foreign Affairs on “Trends in Global Medicine”. Leela also served on the committee of the Cancer Kids fund of Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis and Institutional Review Board and the University of Minnesota Fairview Hospital.
As an Alternative Investments Consultant, Leela Rao has worked over 12 years in the Financial Services Industry. Worked with OMNI Brokerage and 1031 & TIC Investments, LLC team in Commercial Real Estate Tenant in Common (TIC) Investments, REITS (public and Private), Oil and Gas Investments, Debentures, and Real Estate Funds. Leela was a guest speaker on the Stock Doctor Radio show, MN CREW and IMN conferences. Prior to joining 1031 & TIC Investments, LLC, Ms. Rao served as Chief Executive Officer of an international Import firm and also served as the Sales and Operations Manager for a west coast branch of Washington Mutual Bank, California. Ms. Rao received a Bachelor and Master of Arts degree from the University Of Bombay, India specializing in Philosophy, Bio-Socio Ethics, Symbolic Logic. Ms. Rao has also completed Real Estate Management Leadership program at Harvard Business School.
James Seidl
Senior Business Advisor
President
Legal Research Center
James Seidl co-founded Minneapolis-based Legal Research Center, Inc., in 1978 and has served as President since 1987. Legal Research Center (www.lrci.com) provides legal research and writing, research management, and regulatory compliance services to attorneys in corporate and private practice throughout the world. Mr. Seidl's primary responsibilities are in the areas of business, product and service development; he is also responsible for new business planning and corporate strategic partnering.
Mr. Seidl recently co-produced and published the Legal Transformation Study: Your 2020 Vision of the Future (www.legaltransformation.com). The Study identifies key global trends and uncertainties shaping the future of the legal industry and creates a set of four detailed planning scenarios from these forces. The scenarios challenge current service models within the legal industry, answer key strategic questions, and enable corporate law departments and law firms to proactively identify decision-making strategies to ensure their future business success. In 2003, Mr. Seidl co-produced the PricewaterhouseCoopers & Legal Research Center Knowledge Management Study: An In-Depth Look Into the Current Use and Future Trends of KM in the Legal Profession, in collaboration with PwC and the Legal Technology Institute at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
Mr. Seidl is a Minnesota State Chair for the Council on Litigation Management (www.litmgmt.org). Mr. Seidl serves on the Board of the Open Legal Standards Initiative (www.openlegalstandards.org), whose mission is to establish standards for quality and efficient legal services through the development of business process and metrics classification systems. Mr. Seidl serves as business development and strategic advisor to Click Industries, Ltd. (www.clickandinc.com), Miller/Davis Company (www.millerdavis.com), Strategic Radar (www.strategicradar.com), and VersusLaw (www.versuslaw.com), in which LRC is also a strategic and financial partner. Mr. Seidl also serves on the Advisory Board and Executive Leadership Committee of the Law Department Purchasing Consortium (www.lawdepartmentconsortium.com); the Board of Directors of The Priyanka Foundation (www.thepriyankafoundation.org); and the Board of Directors of Friends of Flicka (www.flickasfriends.org), of which he is a co-founder. Mr. Seidl previously served on the board of directors of Law & Politics Media, Inc., publisher of SuperLawyers™ and the monthly Minnesota Law & Politics and Washington Law & Politics magazines, and the Board of Managers of Novus Law (www.novuslaw.com), a global legal services outsourcing company in which LRC is a strategic and financial partner. In mid-1990, he co-developed TheLawOffice.com on the Microsoft Network and Internet. In early 1980, Mr. Seidl co-founded Templeton & Associates: Legal Assistant Services.
Mr. Seidl received his law degree from William Mitchell College of Law and his undergraduate degree from Bethel College. He can be reached at 1.800.776.9377, or by email at jseidl@lrci.com.
Dr. Kumar Belani, MD
Senior Executive Advisor
University of Minnesota
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Professor of Medicine and Public Health
Padma Chintapalli
Chief Financial Officer
Principal
1031 & TIC Investments LLC
Catherine Callahan
Executive Director of Communications
Owner and COO
Simon Construction
Sheila Palm, MA, CCLS
Co-Director/Child life Advisory
Director of Child Life/Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
Priti Desai CCLS, PHD
Co- Director/ Child Life advisory
Department of Child Development and Family Relations,
(CDFR) East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
Nihal Bhakta
Junior Grant and PR Director
Senior
Hopkins High School/ Minnesota
Pramoud Rao
Chairman/ India Program
Founder and CEO
Zicom Securities Ltd
Anita Shenoy
Director of Operations/ India Program
Sanjyokta Malgonda
Child Life operations/ Bangalore, India Program
Advisory Board:
Dr. Kiran Belani
Pediatric Infectious Disease
Childrens Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
Dr. Susan F. Sencer, M.D.
Medical Director, Hematology/Oncology
Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
Victoria Neis, CCLS
Child Life Hematology/Oncology Program
Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
John Vaughan
Senior Pilot
Northwest Airlines
Raghavan Iyer
Chef, Cookbook Author &
Certified Culinary Professional