Jonny Wills

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Writer and Publisher

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Jonny Wills is the Writer and Publisher for Faith Driven Entrepreneur and Faith Driven Investor. Prior to joining the FDE team, he worked as a freelance writer where he worked with businesses, individuals, and ministries around the United States.

In addition to pursuing his master’s degree from Dallas Theological Seminary, Jonny writes regularly for both himself and other publications. He has had stories and essays featured in Fathom Magazine, Mockingbird, Relevant Magazine, and The Daily Wire. He also writes on his personal website where he has a monthly newsletter for anyone interested in words—how they look, how they sound, and how they sometimes make you laugh.

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Are We Gambling or Are We Investing?

Are We Gambling or Are We Investing?

An influx of novice investors is blurring the line between investing and gambling, so where do Faith Driven Investors step in? What are the gaps in this conversation that we can fill?

Josh Kwan

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Co-Founder | Praxis

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Josh finds joy in building high-impact organizations that create enduring value. He co-founded Praxis while he was the Director of International Giving for the David Weekley Family Foundation, where he divided his time between conducting due diligence on innovative social enterprises and helping portfolio organizations scale their impact; he continues to advise DWFF on grantmaking and impact investing.

Josh is a founding board member of Village Schools International, a ministry that has started more than 30 high schools in Africa. He also served on the founding executive committee of the Big Bang Philanthropy Group. Previously, Josh worked as a journalist and was published in The San Jose Mercury News, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. Josh also co-founded and serves on the board of Carpenters Code.

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He graduated from Harvard and earned an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. He lives with his family near San Francisco.

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Josh Ruyle

Director | Hope Global Investment Fund

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Prior to joining HOPE, Josh served as general manager of Opportunity International’s Microcredit Company in East Asia. He began working with HOPE in 2010 alongside Beth, his wife, as HOPE’s East Asia country director and then as Asia and Eastern Europe regional director.  Prior to assuming his current role leading HOPE Global Investments, Josh oversaw HOPE’s strategic push into SME lending, training, and auxiliary services.  In addition to his work at HOPE, Josh is actively working with Beth’s family to assume ownership over a 55-employee company based in northeast Iowa.

Josh holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from Arizona State University, an advanced Chinese language studies certificate, and an M.A. in international development and economics from Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Washington, D.C., with Beth and their three boys, Hudson Taylor, John Elliot, and Enoch Adoniram.

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HOPE Global Investments: Moving Capital and Discipleship Around the World

HOPE Global Investments: Moving Capital and Discipleship Around the World

HOPE International’s journey into deepened support for SME business owners across our network began in many ways with the Login family of Western Ukraine. We had the privilege of watching as their microbusiness – a bike shop – blossomed into a platform for real impact in their home village, namely, helping adolescents with a tendency to turn their backs on family and fall into drugs and alcohol addiction in their teenage years.

JT Vaughn

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Chief Operating Officer | IH

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JT Vaughn is focused on developing high impact business models that transform people while generating economic and environmental returns.

He is the Chief Operating Officer at Industrial Heat. IH is focused on developing cutting edge clean energy technologies and working with partners to commercialize such technologies.

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Justin Forman

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Executive Director of Faith Driven Entrepreneur and Faith Driven Investor

Justin is an entrepreneur that has inspired business leaders to see their Work as a part of their Calling for the past 20 years. As Executive Vice President he was a part of dreamers and doers that built RightNow Media, which serves 30,000 churches and 4 million people in 120 different countries through this “Netflix of Video Studies”. During that time he was also part of creating RightNow Media @ Work’s tools to help business leaders equip their people to be better at home and at work.

He’s been Executive Producer of several books and dozens of short films from business leaders at companies like Hobby Lobby, Popeyes Chicken, Interstate Batteries, SeaWorld, Auntie Anne’s, Grab, NatureSweet and business leaders like Patrick Lencioni, Dave Ramsey and many others.

Today he and his wife own several small businesses in Dallas and serve as President of the Faith Driven Entrepreneur and Investor. The team of 30+ staff support over 1,000 volunteer leaders that serve entrepreneurs in over 88 different countries through world class content and community.

Justin, his wife Sharee both went to school at Baylor University. They have three kids (Tristan, Audrey and Kate). Some things in life are predestined, and for him it was to be a Michigan State Spartan Fan. Office legend has it that his family invented “Sparty”, the iconic Michigan State Mascot. On any given weekend you’ll find him coaching his daughters “Pixie Chicks” girls soccer teams and involved at Citybridge Church.