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Monem Salam
Chairman

Monem, Salam, Saturna Capital's Director of Islamic Investing and Deputy Portfolio Manager, was born in Pakistan in 1972. Raised in Texas, Mr. Salam received his degrees from the University of Texas: BA (Austin) and MBA (Dallas). He worked as Chief Investment Officer for ITG & Associates (Dallas) until 1999, then as a representative with Morgan Stanley (suburban Dallas) until joining Saturna Capital in June 2003. Monem is active with the Muslim community in North America and current Chairman of Peaceful Communications.

Monem has spoken at over 500 Islamic Communities about spirituality, seerah, and Islamic investing over the past three years. Monem continues to speak at Islamic Finance/Investment Conferences Worldwide. In 2008, Monem received the "20 Rising Stars" Award from Institutional Investor News. The award is given to 20 leaders in the mutual fund industry, under 40, who the magazine feels will change in the industry in a positive way in the next 10 years. Monem is also the co-author of a new book called "A Muslim's Guide to Investing And Personal Finance".

Hesham A. Hassaballa
Vice Chair

Hesham A. Hassaballa is a Chicago-based pulmonologist and writer. His articles have been published in both online and print media across the country and the world, including the Chicago Tribune, Middle East Online, and others. His articles have also been distributed by Agence Global. He is a Beliefnet columnist and has also written for the Religion News Service. He is Deputy Director of Illume Magazine, for which he writes a column as well, and serves on the board of Peaceful Communications.

Dr. Hassaballa is author of the essay "Why I Love the Ten Commandments," published in the award-winning book Taking Back Islam (Rodale). He is also co-author of The Beliefnet Guide to Islam (Doubleday). His writings can be found on his website, www.godfaithpen.com, which was nominated in 2007 for a Brass Crescent Award for a blog that is "the most stimulating, insightful, and philosophical, providing the best rebuttals to extremist ideology and making an impact whenever they post."

 

Adil Asaduddin, Md

Adil Asaduddin is originally from Houston, Texas and now lives in the suburbs of Chicago where he practices Internal Medicine. Adil was actively involved in the Muslim Students Association at the University of Texas in Austin, holding posts of Secretary and Vice-President. Adil was also on the Board of Directors for the Texas Union at the University of Texas at Austin, with an annual operating budget of over $5 million. Adil helped start a new MSA chapter at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, and was also a the Treasurer of the UTMB Phi Chi Medical

Fraternity.

Moazzam Ahmed

Moazzam Ahmed is involved in various projects in his community, ranging from youth camps to regional conferences. In 2003 and 2004, Moazzam organized the largest ISNA regional conference ever, attracting over 3,000 participants. He is also the director of muslim-calendar.com, a website that consolidates information and dates for Muslim-community events. Moazzam graduated with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from UT Austin, Texas. He is a consultant and develops business solutions for large and small companies. He resides in Seattle, WA with his wife.

Rehan Jalali

Rehan Jalali is President of the Supplement Research Foundation. He is a nationally recognized Sports Nutritionist who has developed over 100 cutting edge products for the dietary supplement industry. He has appeared in the film documentary “Body of Work” and produced a fitness video with Sylvester Stallone. Rehan also appeared in and co-wrote the Bodylogix health and fitness video as well as the upcoming DVD entitled “Secrets to Fitness Success”. He has over 250 nationally and internationally published articles on nutrition and supplementation. The Washington Post calls Rehan “The sharpest young tool in the nutritional shed and one of the sharpest young minds in fitness.” Rehan has worked with and helped formulate products used by hundreds of Olympic and professional athletes and

celebrities including Sylvester Stallone, Scott Foley, Angie Everhart, Rehan is the author of “The Ultimate Performance Guide to Fitness Success” and the upcoming “Six Pack Diet Plan”, and co-author of “The Bodybuilding Supplement Guide.”

Matthew Mengerink

Matthew graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, BS Computer Science with Special Departmental Honors, and BS Mathematics with Special Departmental Honors. He is currently Director of Technical Strategy at PayPal (an eBay company). Prior to this was a Sr. Technical Architect at eBay. Other employment has been as Director of Development at Half.com, and VP Engineering Deja.com. Matthew converted to Islam 10 years ago.

Shaukat A. gaziani

Shaukat graduated from from Islamia College in Karachi and went on to receive an MBA from the University of Dallas. Shaukat is self-employed with a successful business. His community service includes: board member of CAIR Dallas-Fort Worth, Former President and Board member of IACC. Shaukat and his family (four children) reside in Plano, Texas.

Rizwan O. Jaka

Rizwan graduated with B.S. in Computer Science from University of Texas at Austin, and presently works at Oracle Corporation as Principal Solution Architect. Rizwan’s community involvement includes: President, All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS), Chair of DC Area Eid Committee. Rizwan is also active in many other coaching and youth development activities.

 

Newsflash

One of the goals of this documentary is to create dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims about not only Islam, but the life of American Muslims. To this end, one of the distribution channels that Peaceful Communications would like to use is to encourage mosques and Islamic Schools throughout the country to purchase copies of the DVD, show them at an interfaith function and discuss thoughts on the documentary. Because of it’s content, we feel that both Muslims and non-Muslims would benefit from such an exercise. The Board of Peaceful Communications has broad contacts in the US Muslim community, both in Mosques and Islamic schools.To further the distribution of this documentary, they are willing to use them to
encourage the spread of this film.