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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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• CONVENE

CEO | Convene

Bio:

Greg Leith was born in Canada and lived in all four corners of North America. His career spans over 35 years of senior leadership roles in corporate, non-profit and academic sectors. Recently, he served as Director of Strategic Alliances for 13 years at Biola University in California.

Greg has served the persecuted church with food, brought relief and long term jobs to Orissa, India, assisted mission agencies in China with strategy and helped envision a School of Journalism in Haiti. He and Shelley, his wife of 38 years, have crisscrossed Canada for over a decade speaking on marriage and parenting for FamilyLife helping thousands of marriages.

Greg was a senior executive for 20 years with the $9 billion ServiceMaster Company, serving in various leadership capacities. He was Vice President of Arrow Leadership and Director of Leadership Development for Christian Leadership Alliance, creating learning experiences for the most influential Christian organizations in the world.

Life:

Greg has been married for over 38 years to his wife Shelley, and he’s the father and friend to five thriving young adults.

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Executive Director | Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics

Bio:

As executive director, Hugh Whelchel brings a unique combination of executive responsibility, creative educational administration, and technical innovation from over thirty years of diverse business experience. Almost a decade ago, Hugh stepped out of a successful business career in the IT industry to share his experience of turning around unprofitable companies with Reformed Theological Seminary’s struggling Washington, DC, campus where he served as executive director and guest professor.

In addition to his business acumen, Hugh has a passion and expertise in helping individuals integrate their faith and vocational calling. He is the author of How Then Should We Work? Rediscovering the Biblical Doctrine of Work, released in May 2012. Hugh has been published by a variety of media outlets from The Washington Post to Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, and ByFaith magazine. He has also been a guest on Moody Radio Network’s “In the Market with Janet Parshall,” Salem Radio Network, IRN/USA Radio Network, and Truth in Action Ministries’ “Truth That Transforms,” and the “Jack Riccardi Show,” among other shows.

In addition to serving on the board of several Christian non-profits, Hugh has served as executive director and board member of The Fellows Initiative, an umbrella organization supporting and establishing church-based Fellows Programs which are designed to help young adults understand God’s vocational calling on their lives as they enter their careers.

Life:

A native Floridian, Hugh earned a bachelor of arts in sociology from the University of Florida and a master of arts in religion from Reformed Theological Seminary. Hugh and his wife Leslie now live in Loudoun County, Virginia. As an ordained ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in America, he serves in leadership at McLean Presbyterian Church in McLean, Virginia. In what little spare time he has, Hugh enjoys hiking, golfing, and restoring old sports cars.

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Founder | Future Africa

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji is an entrepreneur in the public interest. He is passionate about partnering with missionary talent and capital to build an African future. He spent the last few years as the CEO of Flutterwave, a business building payments technology and infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy. Over those years, he led the company to become one of the fastest-growing payments technology businesses of all-time processing over $2 billion across over 50 million transactions with annual revenues of millions of dollars a year. It also attracted significant investment from experienced players in the global payments arena such as Y Combinator (investors in Stripe), Greycroft (investors in Braintree), Greenvisor Capital (Led by the Former CEO of Visa), Mastercard amongst others. Prior to helping to co-found and lead Flutterwave, Iyinoluwa co-founded Andela – Africa’s largest engineering organization with over 1000 software engineers which has received investment from Mark Zuckerberg and Google Ventures amongst others. Iyinoluwa holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Studies from the University of Waterloo; and sits on the board of several institutions including Paris’ Share Africa Project, Rainbow Educational Services Limited and Filmo Realty. He served as the Deputy Director General for Madam Oby Ezekwesili’s 2019 Presidential Campaign, he is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree and a member of Nigeria’s Industrial Policy and Competitiveness Advisory Council.

CEO | The Paradigm Project, L3C

J. Greg Spencer has corporate M&A, legal and capital markets experience. He is co-founder of Bluesource, LLC (environmental asset developer), co-founder of The Paradigm Project, L3C (last-mile distribution in East Africa), and is currently working to launch a “Common Good Marketplace” to convert the unrecognized economic value of social impacts in the form of SDGs into incremental program funding for social ventures everywhere.

Greg has been married to his best friend Laurel for 42 years, and is regularly overwhelmed with “boundary lines that have fallen for me in pleasant places.”