Fun facts:

“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.”

Links: 

• Paparelli.com

• Twitter

Blog Posts:

• What’s an Angel Investor to Do?

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.

 Links:

• Website

Teaching Pastor and CEO | Living on the Edge

Bio:

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.

 Links:

• LinkedIn

Managing Partner | Concentric

Bio:

Brent is responsible for fundraising, investor relations, deal sourcing and overall strategy.

Prior to co-founding Concentric, Brent founded and served as the President of Granville Advisers, a boutique advisory and investment firm. Granville advises insurance companies and banks on their private credit investment strategy, advises early stage funds and companies on capital formation strategies and also invests in early stage companies and funds. Prior to Granville, Brent co-founded Triangle Capital Corporation. From 2002-2016, Brent was engaged in starting, taking public and building this investment company which focused on direct lending to lower-middle market companies. As the Chief Investment Officer and Chairman of the Investment Committee, Brent led $2.3 billion of investments in 165 private companies. Prior to Triangle, Brent worked at Oberlin Capital and Cherokee Investment Partners.

Since 2011, Mr. Burgess has served as an advisor and investment committee member of Sovereign’s Capital, an early stage venture fund with offices in Palo Alto, CA and Jakarta, Indonesia. Mr. Burgess is also an advisory board member of CoFounders Fund, an early stage venture fund based in Raleigh, NC, FMI Investment Partners, a private equity fund based in Raleigh, NC, and Cypress Hills Partners, a boutique merchant banking firm based in Vancouver, BC. Brent also serves as an advisor or board member of numerous small businesses. In addition to his for-profit ventures, Brent also serves on a number of non-profit boards, including Freedom United, the largest anti-slavery and human trafficking advocacy organization in the world.

Mr. Burgess earned a B.Ed. in History and Social Studies from the University of Regina, Canada in 1989, where he graduated with Great Distinction. He earned an MCS/MA from Regent College/University of British Columbia in Church History in 1993, where he was awarded the Board of Governor’s Prize and the History Prize.

Life:

Brent has been married for 25 years and is the proud father of two awesome kids. He likes to read, is an avid cyclist, ever hopeful Carolina Hurricanes fan and will generally do whatever his daughter Anna asks him to do.

 Links:

• LinkedIn

• Made To Flourish

Author, Founder and Executive Director | The Chalmers Center

Bio:

Dr. Brian Fikkert is the founder and executive director of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development, a research and training center that is dedicated to helping churches and missionaries to declare the kingdom of God by bringing economic development and spiritual transformation to the poor.

Brian also serves as a professor of economics and community development at Covenant College. Brian received a Ph.D. in economics with highest honors from Yale University, and a B.A. in mathematics from Dordt College. Specializing in Economic Development and International Economics, Brian has been a consultant to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the United States Agency for International Development.

He has published articles in both leading academic and popular journals and has recently co-authored the book When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself (Moody Publishers). Prior to coming to Covenant College, he was a professor at the University of Maryland and a research fellow at the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector.

He, his wife Jill, and their three children live in Chattanooga, Tennessee where he is an active member of New City Fellowship Presbyterian Church (PCA).

Links: 

• Permanent Equity

CEO/Founder | Permanent Equity

Brent leads the firm, and more specifically the acquisition and diligence teams, while supporting portfolio company operators.

Brent serves on the board of Love Columbia, a mid-Missouri-based non-profit.

Brent is raising three young daughters with Dr. Erica Beshore, participating in church activities, and occasionally enjoying competitive tennis and bad golf.