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Co-Founder and CEO | Cornerstone Technologies

Fisher graduated from the University of Memphis in 1995 with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Upon graduation, he founded a company specializing in Internet software development for enterprises using a new programming language released that year called Java.

In 1997, Fisher designed the web-based event management solution that became the core of EventU, now in use by thousands of non-profit organizations and Fortune 500 companies.

In 1998 after a trip to Romania, he sold his business (dba ServiceU) and moved to Romania to start Cornerstone Technologies, an outsourcing software development firm. While living in Bucharest, Fisher helped build churches, organize Bible studies in government and organize Romania’s annual National Prayer Dinner in Parliament. During the era of the dot-com bubble, Cornerstone Technologies was blessed to do highly specialized software development for a number of Fortune 500 companies.

In 2002, Fisher acquired the intellectual property for an application he developed for Regions Bank and co-founded Asentinel. Fisher is the principal architect and patent inventor for Asentinel’s telecom expense management (TEM) solutions. In 2003, Gartner began tracking the TEM industry which grew to over $2B by 2015. In 2008, Fisher received the first of his patents and successfully licensed his patents with several publicly traded competitors.

In 2013, he left Asentinel to again be the CEO of Cornerstone Technologies. In 2014, he finished his Master of Divinity at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary and co-founded Highland Harvesters, the largest apple orchard in Ethiopia located among thirty-two unreached, unengaged people groups. In 2016, he became the Executive in Residence at Emanuel University where he is pursuing graduate work on “business as missions”. Currently, he is overseeing over a dozen kingdom businesses on five continents. 

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Managing Director | Koch Disruptive Technologies

Jason Illian is the Managing Director of Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the venture and growth arm of Koch Industries. KDT’s role is to invest in technology companies that disrupt and transform Koch’s core businesses and expand into new platforms and capabilities. Artificial intelligence, blockchain and crypto, bio IT and genomics, and industrial robotics are just a few segments being explored by KDT. Jason serves on the board of D2iQ, the cloud-native leader in open-source applications and Kubernetes management, and as an advisor to 8VC and Steve Case’s Rise of the Rest fund.

Jason has 20+ years of experience leading and building technology companies. Prior to assuming this role, Mr. Illian was the Founder and CEO of BookShout, the world’s leading B2B e-book company which was acquired by a private equity group. In addition to being a Senior Advisor/Entrepreneur-in-Residence to the PE group, Jason has advised and consulted for numerous investment and technology companies.

Jason is also a published author and nationally-renown speaker. Jason has presented at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) re: Invent conference, the Goldman Sachs Technology & Internet Conference, and hundreds of other organizations. He has been featured in Bloomberg, The New York Times, VentureBeat and regularly does interviews on behalf of KDT and Koch.

Jason graduated Magna Cum Laude from Texas Christian University with a BBA in International Finance. He continued his education with TCU and the London School of Economics, held the distinguished honor of being named one of the top 20 students in America by USA Today, was a Rhodes scholar finalist, and was an NCAA Academic All-American while being captain of the TCU football team.

When Jason isn’t spending time with his family or digging deeper in his faith, Jason is studying blockchain and cryptocurrencies, AI, medical technologies, robotics and manufacturing and other future technologies. He lives in Wichita, KS. 

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Managing Partner | Eventide Investments

Bio:

Jason Myhre serves as Director of Advocacy at Eventide. In this capacity, he serves as an advocate for “investing that makes the world rejoice”® and the Business 360 investing philosophy to investor, business, and popular audiences.

In prior roles at Eventide, Mr. Myhre led Marketing and Sales. Before joining Eventide, he worked in internal sales and managed key customer relationships for Altec.

He holds a M.S. and a B.S. in Biological Engineering from the University of Florida.

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President | Sagamore Institute

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Jay Hein is the president of Sagamore Institute, a think tank he co-founded in 2004 with U.S. Senator Dan Coats.  As part of his Sagamore duties, Jay also serves as managing director of an impact investing vehicle called Commonwealth.  He is also a fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for the Studies of Religion.

Previously, Jay served as Deputy Assistant to President Bush and Director, White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives.  In this capacity, he advised the President and oversaw the implementation of a “determined attack on need” with staff at a dozen cabinet agencies.  He formerly directed Civil Society Programs at Hudson Institute and he served as a welfare policy advisor to then-Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson.

Jay is the author of The Quiet Revolution: An Active Faith That Transforms Lives and Communities which was commissioned by Amazon to help launch its new faith-based division. He received an undergraduate degree at Eureka College and an honorary Doctor of Laws from Indiana Wesleyan University.

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Advocacy & External Relations | Economics of Mutuality

Jay joined Mars Catalyst in 2007. Since joining, he has been leading several critical components of the Economics of Mutuality, including developing and managing Catalyst’s many external thought partnerships, EoM education initiatives, etc. Since 2014, he has directed the multi-year joint research partnership on EoM that Catalyst has with Oxford University’s Said Business School, where Jay is a regular guest lecturer on EoM.

He is the co-author (with Bruno Roche) of the EoM book, ‘Completing Capitalism’ (Berrett-Koehler, 2017 & CITIC Press in Chinese, 2018).

Jay is American and is based in the Mars global headquarters in McLean, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C. His doctorate is in Modern History from Oxford University (St. John’s College), he has an M.A. in International Relations & Strategic Studies from the University of Lancaster (UK), and a double-BA in International Relations / Political Science from American University in Washington, DC. 

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