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Founder and CEO | Continental Realty Group

Bio:

David Snyder’s expertise comes from more than 30 years of commercial real estate investment experience. During that time, he has overseen and managed a wide variety of real estate investment transactions.

Over the course of his career, David has directed real estate investment activities for pension fund, insurance, syndication, and private clients. He has also helped to liquidate and/or restructure the classified assets of syndication groups and financial and government institutions. He has purchased in excess of $2 billion in investments of commercial and multifamily real estate for his clients and sponsored investment funds. He is a member of the board of directors of the National Multi-Housing Council and serves of the board of several non-profit organizations.

Life:

David attended Colorado State University, where he studied Construction Management, Solar/Chemical Engineering, and Business Administration. He previously served in various capacities with Van Schaak and Company, Commonwealth Mortgage Company, Worldwide Exchange Group, and Snyder Investment Corporation, a real estate investment company he founded in 1979. He has two adult children and he and his wife currently reside in Littleton, Colorado.

CEO | Foundations for Farming

Bio:

Craig Deall serves as CEO of Foundations for Farming—an initiative aimed at bringing transformation to individuals, communities and nations through faithful and productive use of land.

Foundations for Farming is based in Zimbabwe, where burning and deep soil inversion are common practice on farms causing terrible sheet erosion to occur, which results in loss of seed and water. Craig and the team at Foundations for Farming are working to encourage local farmers to use more productive and sustainable practices, thus improving productivity and sustainability all throughout the region.

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Founder and Managing Director at Re:Frontier

Curt Laird is one of the most experienced foreign entrepreneurs in frontier markets. Having worked in over thirty countries, he spent fourteen years in Afghanistan, where he was a founding executive director of Roshan, Afghanistan’s largest mobile phone operator; launched his own fifty-employee training company; and founded the Business Innovation Hub, a business accelerator at the American University of Afghanistan. He is currently consulting for startups in Nigeria. During his time in Afghanistan, Curt met his future wife, Katrina, a British-Finnish international development professional working on conflict and security sector reform. They have two children, Soraya Kaija and Josiah Jaya, each of whom have four citizenships and the same peripatetic life their parents grew up experiencing.

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Producer and Director | The Chosen

Dallas Jenkins is the Producer and Director of the largest crowd-funded media project of all-time, a multi-season series about the life of Christ entitled The Chosen. He is son of celebrated Left Behind author Jerry Jenkins. He produced the independent feature “Hometown Legend” at the age of 25 and shepherded it to distribution by Warner Brothers. He has directed and produced over a dozen feature and short films for companies such as Universal, Lionsgate, Pureflix, Hallmark Channel, and Amazon. His most recent film, “The Resurrection of Gavin Stone”, released in theaters in 2017. He is now directing and producing the largest crowdfunded media project of all-time, a multi-season series about the life of Christ entitled “The Chosen”.

Impact Investor | International Development Professional

Dana views all of her treasure, time and talent as gifts from God that are meant to be stewarded towards three ends – for God’s glory, the good of others and for our own well-being. The investment of our capital is an expression of our management of God’s resources in such a way that one day we hear “well done, good and faithful servant.” She aligns her investing and philanthropy with the specific areas God has called her, seeking sustainable impact. Over the past 10 years, she has come to understand that both our charitable capital and our personal capital can have faith-driven impact for spiritual and social good. She increasingly directs a sizable portion of the charitable capital in her family foundation towards impact investing.

Dana is an international development professional with 20 years at USAID and Department of Commerce. She has years of experience advising nonprofits engaged nationally and globally across many sectors, including micro-finance and private sector engagement. She is active in The Gathering, Generous Giving, Praxis, and Lion’s Den. She is an FDE small group facilitator and is on the FDI leadership team launching a citywide network in the DC Metro area to develop a local community of faith driven entrepreneurs and investors. She holds an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University. Dana finds joy in helping organizations problem-solve, generating creative and faithful solutions. She loves to create community around ideas, connecting transcendent truth in both relational depth and practical application.