Caitlin brings over 10 years of Fund Administration experience to Promised Land. She worked on a prominent hedge fund client with 60+ Billion assets under management. She dipped her toes into the Farmland Industry in 2020, but really jumped in by joining Promised Land in early 2024. She has a love for problem-solving and attention to detail. Caitlin does financial modeling, asset underwriting, and valuation work for Promised Land.

John S. Heneghan is the President of Servant Financial, Ltd., the Manager of Last Leaf Ventures, LLC, and the Manager of the Fund. Mr. Heneghan has substantial experience covering large family and multifamily offices providing advice on Alternative Investment Management. Prior to Servant Financial, Mr. Heneghan held executive leadership roles spanning both public and private accounting and finance roles. Mr. Heneghan holds a Bachelor of Science (High Honors) in Accounting from University of Illinois – Gies College of Business.

From 2004 to 2019, Mr. Zann was a portfolio manager at Balyasny Asset Management and became a partner in 2007. He ran both energy and industrials allocations at BAM and was consistently a top profit generator. Within BAM, Christian launched and managed the ZIE fund from 2014 until 2019 as an outside portfolio.

Dr. Sherrick helps make crop insurance programs work better for crop producers across the United States. Through the farmdoc program at the University of Illinois, he helps inform producers and policy makers on a wide array of contemporary issues affecting agriculture. As a member of the Farmland Technical Advisory Board, he coordinates the required calculations that support the use-value farmland assessment system in Illinois. He helps build information systems for agricultural asset markets that utilize big data and novel computational strategies to better understand farmland values.

Mr. McAdams is an expert consultant in the MH/RV industry. His current clients include Equity Lifestyle Properties (ELS), Brown and Brown, Campers Inn, and Costco Auto Buying Services. Beginning in 1991, Mr. McAdams was CEO of the Affinity Group which offered ancillary products and services to the RV industry and had an annual revenue of about $450 million. He purchased Thousand Trails, the largest private membership camping organization in the United States, in 2006. Thousand Trails had 82 RV resorts and 135,000 member families when it was purchased by ELS. Joe then became the President of Equity Lifestyle Properties (ELS) which had over 5,100 employees and annual revenues in excess of $500 million

Throughout his career, Mr. Thayer has been heavily involved in the formation, financing, and operation of business enterprises in a variety of industries both domestically and internationally. Mr. Thayer advises businesses on their formation issues, capital structures, private placement offerings, and other business contracts. He advises family offices and hedge fund managers, and he also assists businesses with routine business transactions.

Kellee James has spent 20 years building markets for environmental assets in the agriculture and energy sectors, including carbon and water markets as well as identity-preserved grain & oilseed commodity markets. She is the founder of Mercaris, an agtech company and price reporting agency that provides independent analysis of organic and non-GMO crops. Kellee sits on the Board of Oregon Tilth, one of the largest certifiers of organic farmland in the US and was a White House Fellow under the Obama administration.

Ailie is an investment analyst and digital content creator for Promised Land. Ailie grew up on a row-crop farm in central Illinois and also works as a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She combines her love for writing with her passion for agricultural investing and economics. She assists with investment research, economic analysis, and data analytics, particularly with respect to farm acquisitions for Promised Land Opportunity Zone Fund.