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Luigi Gratton: For more than 30 years, Herbalife has been a pioneer in providing great nutrition
and helping millions of people are the world live healthy, active lives. It all starts
with our products and you and your customers can be confident in the quality, safety, and
benefit of Herbalife nutrition products. I’m Luigi Gratton as Vice President of Worldwide
Product Marketing, I’m responsible for setting the overall vision and direction of our global
product strategy and I’m honored to serve as the voice of the products to all of our
Herbalife Distributors and it’s my privilege to be part of our incredible science and product
development team which consist of experts in the fields of nutrition and health from
around the world. Herbalife’s Chief Scientific Officer, Steve Henig, has more than four decades
of experience in bringing new ingredients in consumer goods for the marketplace. For
the past 7 years, he provided his rich product experience to Herbalife. As the director of
the Center For Human Nutrition at UCLA, David Heber is sought after from the scientific
community and media alike. As Chairman of Herbalife’s Nutrition Advisory Board, he
brings his vast expertise to ensure we are incorporating up to date science into our
products. We’re honored to have Nobel Laureate, Louis Ignarro as a member to our Herbalife
team and our nutrition advisory board. Based upon his award winning research, Louis Ignarro
has helped us create formulas such as Niteworks and our Cardio Health product line. As a competitive
cyclist, John Heiss, Director of Sports And Fitness Products for World Wide Product Marketing,
knows firsthand the important role nutrition plays with competitive athletes. With his
expertise, Herbalife has developed Herbalife24, a line of high performance sports nutrition
products for the 24 hour athlete. Gary Small is a well known and widely respected expert
in brain health and aging and he’s serves as an editorial member of Herbalife Nutrition
Institute, Herbalife’s online nutrition information resource center and as a member
of our Nutrition Advisory Board. Vasilios Frankos is one of the country’s foremost
authorities on dietary supplements. Before joining Herbalife, he served as the director
of the US Food And Drug Administration’s Division of dietary supplements programs and
is now our senior vice president global product, science, safety, and compliance. Our Herbalife
product line also addresses outer nutrition. Paolo Giacomoni, with a prestigious career
in research and development for consumer skin care products, is Herbalife’s Vice President
of World Wide Outer Nutrition. He is responsible for the development of innovative solutions
for global skin and hair care needs and brings to Herbalife his expertise in Biochemistry
and Cellular Biology. Also representing outer nutrition science on our nutrition advisory
board is Jenny Kim, a renowned scientist and researcher who studies skin health and is
an associate professor dermatology at UCLA as well as Chief of dermatology at the great
Los Angeles Health Care System For Veterans Affairs . Together this highly experienced
team is tasked with identifying beneficial ingredients, helping to develop effective
products and educating Independent Distributors and the public on proper nutrition and the
benefits of a healthy active lifestyle. Herbalife’s Nutrition Advisory Board is comprised of professionals
in the fields of nutrition and health from around the globe who educate and train Herbalife
Independent Distributors on the principles of nutrition, physical activity, and healthy
lifestyle. In addition to researching and educations, our scientific team conducts and
participates in clinical studies at leading research facilities such as UCLA and the University
of Ulm. To keep Herbalife on the forefront of knowledge and human nutrition, one important
factor in providing quality products is in knowing where the raw ingredients are grown.
From Tea Fields in China to Aloe Fields in Mexico to the Soy Bean Fields in the United
States, we know how our ingredients are cultivated, harvested, and processed into the raw materials
used in our nutrition products. We will continue to make substantial investments in manufacturing
allowing us to have even more control in every aspect of our product. New manufacturing facilities
are planned for the east of the United States and in India and Europe which will join our
current Herbalife innovation and manufacturing centers. Our Botanical Extraction Facility
in Changsha, China and our product manufacturing facilities in Lake Forest, California and
Suzhou, China. Where ever Herbalife products are produced, they are manufactured in compliance
with United States and worldwide good manufacturing practices. Our quality controls continue as
Herbalife monitors the environment which finished products are exposed. Our state of the art
temperature monitoring program surveys the environment where products are stored and
held for distribution. From the ground in which our ingredients are grown to the first
shake you enjoy in the morning, we are committed to quality. Herbalife nutrition products made
from ingredients that are scientifically proven to provide you with good nutrition, made with
the highest standards in quality manufacturing, so you and your customers can be confident
that Herbalife products are simply the best and this is the best time ever to be part
of Herbalife.