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COMMODITIES, GLOBAL

Thom Garlock

Managing Director,

IFS Fund

About Thom

Thomas Garlock, managing director of IFS Fund, began his career in 1982 building portfolios of hard assets for private clients seeking alternative investment diversification in oil and gas, precious metals, and real estate assets. He is the Manager of Teton Land & Development Group, LLC, Fiver Rivers Property Fund Trail Creek Crossing, LLC, and The Income Fund, LLC, each which is a real estate development or real-estate related services companies operating in the Jackson Hole, Wyoming market. For the past 30 years, Mr. Garlock has organized ventures in real estate as well as numerous wireless communication fields, including cellular telephony, PCS, and wireless data networks. He has been the principal in a variety of communications license-based ventures that have held and developed 55 MSA metropolitan cellular telephone licenses, 9 RSA rural cellular telephone licenses. Mr. Garlock is the author of The Ultimate Guide to Self-Directed Retirement Plans released in late 2012 and the co-author to the best selling book Trendsetters. He enjoys being an educator, coach, and speaker in the Self-Directed Retirement Plan industry. Mr. Garlock completed coursework in business administration at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Kent State University.