Master EntrepreneursCharles D. McVean is Chairman and CEO of McVean Trading & Investments, LLC of Memphis, TN. McVean graduated with honors from Vanderbilt University in 1965. He began his trading career in the grain industry, first with Cook Industries of Memphis, TN,
and then with the Louis Dreyfus Corporation of New York City, both major international trading firms. Subsequently, McVean spent a number of years with Refco Inc., a large Chicago based futures trading organization. He was one of three principals of the firm.
McVean founded McVean Trading and Investments, LLC in 1986. The company conducts extensive research in three broad and interrelated areas: 1) livestock and meats, 2) grains and oilseeds, and 3) global macroeconomics. McVean is a global organization with foreign operations centering in Beijing, Osaka, and Geneva. In the U.S., McVean Trading is nationally recognized as a leading authority on the beef cattle industry. The company manages investments for over 5,000 clients.
Based on breakthroughs in lithium battery technology, a new McVean company is now introducing its Aerobic Cruiser Hybrid Cycle. The patented Cruiser is billed as “The World’s Most Sophisticated Electric Bicycle,” and “The First Truly Capable Human/Electric Hybrid Vehicle.”
McVean founded what is now The Peer Power Foundation in 2004. The organization’s mission is to prepare socioeconomically challenged youth to be professional, productive, and competitive contributors to our society. The concept is to create and implement new processes based on personal accountability, discipline, competition, and incentives, very much like that of the American Free Enterprise System. Peer Power now operates in eleven schools, employing, for pay, over 150 college and high school honor students to tutor and mentor over 1,000 students a day. The improvement shown by foundation “Scholars” is truly exciting. McVean was also instrumental in the founding of The McVean Learning Center at Christ Methodist Day School.
McVean is particularly proud of two recent developments. The Memphis City Council recognized him with its Humanitarian of the Year award in 2007 for his successful efforts to improve public education. Very recently, in September 2009, the Peer Power program in Shelby, Mississippi was awarded a $600,000 competitive grant from the 21st Century Foundation.
Manages investments primarily in trading agricultural product futures.
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“‘Our nation is severely challenged on several macroeconomic and geopolitical fronts. Entrepreneurial creativity, and the process of constant innovation it spawns, are among the few areas where we remain dominant globally. We need to do a better job of integrating these strengths into a more refined long term plan for our country, particularly in respect to the erosion of our industrial sector.”
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