Links:

• LinkedIn

President and COO | Applied Ceramics

Bio:

Leads a family business as one of three second generation brothers. Applied Ceramics is a manufacturing business that has been in operation since 1967 and focused on becoming a world class organization that honors the past while moving towards the future. He creates value for customers, employees, and owners with a company culture that demands doing what we say, treating others the way we want to be treated, and exceeding expectations as best we can.

Bobby can see the bigger picture and how things fit together in an organization in order to align team members around a common purpose key factors. He values a team atmosphere and can determine how to optimize a group’s performance to maximize the return given the resources. He also believes in continuous improvement and that world class is a journey, not a destination.

 Links:

• LinkedIn

Co-Founder and Managing Director | CLX Ventures

Bio:

Brad is a seasoned real estate executive with a 32 year track record of success in development, investment management, leasing, portfolio management and strategy, asset management, investment sales, acquisitions and dispositions and for three national real estate firms, as well as his own company. Brad started Copeland Commercial 10 years ago and has completed in excess of $500 million of Industrial and Multi-Family development projects.  Brad also has extensive experience on a local, national and global level. Since 1999, he has negotiated numerous joint venture structures and has a development track record totaling over 200+ buildings, 42,000,000 S.F., and $2.5+ B in gross asset value.

Brad began his career at the Trammell Crow Company where he was a partner in the firm.  In his next role, Brad was named National Director of Acquisitions and  Development for Crow Holdings’ Industrial REIT. In 2002, Crow Holdings’ sold the REIT to ING Clarion Partners  where Brad then served as a Director in the firm and the Chief Investment Officer of Lion Industrial Trust, one of  ING Clarion Partner’s largest open-ended funds with total assets under management of $4.1B and over  75,000,000 SF. Additionally, Brad was responsible for key client relationships and sourcing new investment  opportunities for ING’s other commingled funds and separated account clients. Brad also chaired ING’s Global Industrial Platform.

Partner | Praxis

Andy Crouch is partner for theology and culture at Praxis, an organization that works as a creative engine for redemptive entrepreneurship. His two most recent books—2017’s The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place and 2016’s Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing—build on the compelling vision of faith, culture, and the image of God laid out in his previous books Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power and Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling.

Andy serves on the governing boards of Fuller Theological Seminary and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. For more than ten years he was an editor and producer at Christianity Today, including serving as executive editor from 2012 to 2016. He served the John Templeton Foundation in 2017 as senior strategist for communication. His work and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing—and, most importantly, received a shout-out in Lecrae’s 2014 single “Non-Fiction.”

From 1998 to 2003, Andy was the editor-in-chief of re:generation quarterly, a magazine for an emerging generation of culturally creative Christians. For ten years he was a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University. He studied classics at Cornell University and received an M.Div. summa cum laude from Boston University School of Theology.

A classically trained musician who draws on pop, folk, rock, jazz, and gospel, Andy has led musical worship for congregations of 5 to 20,000. He lives with his family in Pennsylvania.

Links: 

• LinkedIn

Executive Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer | Archegos Capital Management

Bio:

Andy is the Executive Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Archegos Capital Management, and joined the firm in 2014.  He was the former Chief Executive Officer of the Thomson Financial and Professional Publishing unit of The Thomson Corporation, where he was also a member of the Board.  Andy is also a Senior Fellow at The King’s College in New York City, where he was previously the President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Andy received a BA from Oxford University and an MBA from Harvard University.

Partner | Sovereign’s Capital

Bio:

Ben Erskine is a Partner at Sovereign’s Capital and previous Managing Principal of Callis Capital. Ben has spent the past 16 years in the real estate industry working on both the brokerage and investment sides of the business. For much of his career, Ben has and continues to serve as a Managing Director for Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE: JLL), a fortune 200 global real estate services company.