Charlie Paparelli

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“Angel investing is a contact sport. It is not about investing in companies. It is all about investing in people and their families. I love it and wouldn’t think of doing anything else. God uses me every day in these activities as an angel investor.”

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Bio:

For over 20 years, I’ve been an professional angel investor and entrepreneur. My mission is to help you take the next steps in business and life.

10 facts about Charlie

  1. Professional angel investor and co-founder of 12 startups.

  2. Invested in 23 startups in the last 23 years.

  3. Since 1992 focused on helping entrepreneurs start and build their company.

  4. Mentors 10 startup founders and advise many more on a daily basis.

  5. Offices at the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.

  6. Founder and director of Angel Lounge in Atlanta.

  7. Had five exits which netted an 50% IRR (internal return rate).

  8. Continually thinks about helping entrepreneurs build the company of their dreams and great value for investors.

  9. A recovering alcoholic who, thanks to the recovery process, entered into a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

  10. Has a God given passion for entrepreneurs, to love and serve them.

I have 3 beliefs…

  1. There is a reason God puts each entrepreneur in my life. I need to discover the reason and help with next steps for the entrepreneur.

  2. Every day I must intercede in prayer, asking God to share his mercy, blessing and protection for every entrepreneur who shares their story with me.

  3. My investment and mentoring relationships tie my destiny to God’s destiny for the entrepreneur. It is always a wild ride.

Chip Ingram

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Teaching Pastor and CEO | Living on the Edge

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Chip Ingram is the teaching pastor and CEO of Living on the Edge, an international teaching and discipleship ministry. Chip’s direct, practical teaching style helps everyday believers apply God’s truth to relevant issues, relationships and challenges. Reaching more than a million people a week, his teaching can be heard online and through hundreds of radio and television outlets worldwide. In his winsome, down-to-earth way, he reveals Bible truth about God’s perspective on marriage, understanding love and sex, raising kids, money, and how to live the Christian life in today’s culture. A pastor for over thirty years, Chip is the author of many books, including Culture Shock, The Real Heaven, The Real God, The Invisible War, and Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships.

Life:

Chip and his wife, Theresa, have four grown children and twelve grandchildren and live in California.

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Brad Hill

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Brad Hill is an accomplished, values-driven leader with experience in organizations ranging from startup to mature lifecycle phases. He enjoys building teams, crafting strategies, and leading organizations to execute with excellence and a purpose.

Brad is experienced in bringing SaaS technology to vertical markets (especially member and cause-based), driving strong inbound marketing engines, and disrupting markets. He has a track record of strong P&L results, growing top-line revenues, finding cost efficiencies, and generating positive results for shareholders, employees, and customers.

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Brad Webb

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Brad Webb serves as Executive Vice President at RREAF Holdings. RREAF is a private real estate investment firm that currently holds over >$1B in assets under management, including 36 multifamily properties, 5 hospitality properties, and several multifamily and hospitality ground up construction projects. Brad has over 10 years’ experience in commercial real estate underwriting & finance. He began his career on church staff where he served as a Youth Pastor and then as the Missions Pastor. During that time Brad also co-founded a tee shirt design & printing company, which he ran for several years before making the transition into Banking.

Brad began his Banking career as a credit analyst and commercial real estate underwriter for Independent Bank. He was quickly promoted to Vice President, where he grew and managed a large commercial real estate loan portfolio. He then served as Senior Vice President at Bank OZK for several years before joining the RREAF team in late 2018. Brad has a BBA in Business from Baylor University.

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Brandt Brereton

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Partner | Perpetuate Capital

Brandt Brereton is co-founder and partner of Perpetuate Capital. Perpetuate is a structured equity fund that marries Christian capital providers with Christian business owners seeking liquidity or growth capital and who also want to ensure the independence and ministry legacy of the business remains unchanged during and subsequent to their involvement.  

Prior to his participation in Perpetuate Capital, Brandt served as the President of Brereton, Hanley & Co., Inc. a boutique investment bank in Silicon Valley he founded in 1995 that advises middle market companies on M&A, Private Equity and Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) / Employee Share Ownership Trust (ESOT) transactions.

God benched Brandt from investment banking two-thirds of the way through his thirty-year business career, and he became a senior executive of City Team Ministries International for two years. He was released back into investment banking after the Lord acutely focused him on His agenda for the world, infusing a renewed passion for educating Christian business owners on the ESOP sale alternative in order to perpetuate ministry supported by those client businesses.

With an equal depth and breadth of experience across the three most common liquidity events and leveraged finance generally, Brandt offers comparative education, advice and execution to owners struggling with the tension that exists between perpetuating the ministry impact of the business and the need for it to receive outside capital for either shareholder liquidity or growth.  

Brandt earned a BA in Finance from San Jose State University and has attended executive education courses at Harvard Business School.

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Sustaining Business as a Ministry (BaaM) in Perpetuity

Sustaining Business as a Ministry (BaaM) in Perpetuity

Approximately 2,000 private businesses in the United States are currently owned by committed Christians who provide varying levels of support for domestic and international ministry and missions within and outside the company.