|Management Team|

Gina M. Paige

President, African Ancestry, Inc.

Ms. Paige brings a wealth of diverse management and entrepreneurial experience to her role as president of African Ancestry. Ms. Paige was the founder and president of GPG Strategic Resources, a boutique New York consulting firm specializing in strategy development, new product development and project management. Prior to that, she helped manage and improve the profitability of some of America’s most well-known consumer brands. The list of firms to which she has contributed her considerable talents includes Fortune 200 companies such as Sara Lee (from which she received two corporate distinctions) and Colgate-Palmolive. Ms. Paige holds a degree in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business.

To contact Gina Paige, email: gpaige@africanancestry.com

Rick Kittles, Ph.D.

Scientific Director, African Ancestry, Inc.
Associate Professor, The University of Chicago, Department of Medicine

Kittles received his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from George Washington University. Dr. Kittles went to Howard University in 1998 and helped to establish a national cooperative network to study the genetics of hereditary prostate cancer in the African American community. As Co-Director of Molecular Genetics at the National Human Genome Center at Howard University, he established large-scale, high throughput genotyping and DNA sequencing. Dr. Kittles’ research exploits gene genealogy in studies of population history and disease associations. He has had a strong research focus on using DNA to trace ancestry of African Americans and has published articles on prostate cancer genetics of African Americans.

To contact Dr. Rick Kittles, email rkittles@africanancestry.com.

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