Bio:

Tiger Dawson is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Edify, after transitioning from President on October 1, 2017. Tiger served from 2005-2009 as the managing director of the Halftime Organization, which helps high capacity, marketplace leaders move from success to significance. Prior to his role at Halftime, Tiger served for 22 years with Young Life, a non-denominational Christian ministry targeting disinterested youth around the globe. During his time at Young Life, Tiger served in various roles from Area Director to Divisional Director of Strategic Growth where he coordinated the growth in 22 states and Latin America. Since 1997, Tiger has been very involved with the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). He has designed and run the youth, teen and young adult education tracts at 10 international family universities.

Life:

Tiger earned his undergraduate degree at Baylor University and pursued a master’s degree at Dallas Theological Seminary and Fuller Seminary. Tiger is married to Leslie and they have two wonderful daughters and a son-in-law, Anna, Kimberly and Hunter. He enjoys spending time with his family horseback riding, snow skiing, and playing sand volleyball.

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Founding pastor | Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan

Timothy Keller is the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, which he started in 1989 with his wife, Kathy, and three young sons.  For 28 years he led a diverse congregation of young professionals that grew to a weekly attendance of over 5,000.

He is also the Chairman & Co-Founder of Redeemer City to City (CTC), which starts new churches in New York and other global cities, and publishes books and resources for ministry in an urban environment. In 2017 Dr. Keller transitioned to CTC full time to teach and mentor church planters and seminary students through a joint venture with Reformed Theological Seminary’s (RTS), the City Ministry Program. He also works with CTC’s global affiliates to launch church planting movements.

Dr. Keller’s books, including the New York Times bestselling The Reason for God and The Prodigal God, have sold over 2 million copies and been translated into 25 languages.

Christianity Today has said, “Fifty years from now, if evangelical Christians are widely known for their love of cities, their commitment to mercy and justice, and their love of their neighbors, Tim Keller will be remembered as a pioneer of the new urban Christians.”

Dr. Keller was born and raised in Pennsylvania, and educated at Bucknell University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary. He previously served as the pastor of West Hopewell Presbyterian Church in Hopewell, Virginia, Associate Professor of Practical Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, and Director of Mercy Ministries for the Presbyterian Church in America.

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• Christian Super

CIO | Brightlight

Bio:

Tim Macready is Chief Investment Officer of Brightlight, leading all aspects of Brightlight’s impact investment strategy across multi-manager and single sector portfolios and working with investors to help them allocate capital into impact and faith-driven investing.  Tim led the formation of Brightlight as it spun out from Christian Super, an Australian Pension Fund, having joined Christian Super in 2005 and been responsible for managing the internal investment team and working with the Investment Committee and external specialists to oversee Investment Strategy.

Prior to working at Christian Super, Tim was an Actuarial Analyst at Aon Consulting.  He holds a B Com (Actuarial Studies) from Macquarie University and a Masters of Divinity from the Australian College of Theology, and is a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA).

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Partner | Access Ventures

Bio:

TJ Abood is the Investment Partner at Access Ventures. Prior to joining the firm in 2014, TJ spent eight years with a small-cap private equity fund, operating a consolidation strategy.

In addition to his investment strategy and acquisition experience, TJ has also managed financial operations at scale and held numerous institutional banking positions. TJ has a B.S. in Accounting from Miami University, an Entrepreneurship MBA from the University of Louisville, and has also completed post-graduate work at Harvard Business School.

Life:

TJ is married to Coral Abood and they have two children. Their family can often be found on the soccer field or serving within their community.

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Chief Operating Officer | Sinapsis

Bio:

Toby guides Sinapis’ scaling, investment, and accelerator strategies. He is leveraging his experience as a Principal at Deloitte Consulting and a Partner at A.T. Kearney and building an investor pipeline at Sinapis that both accelerates businesses and matches them with investors.

With over 25 years of international experience with SGBs, he has street smarts to go with the book smarts of his Harvard MBA and Vanderbilt honors. Toby knows SGBs offer some of the best opportunities for growth and job creation, but they need proper advisory and financial capital support to thrive. This is why he’s building the next generation of programs at Sinapis to catalyze businesses to their full potential.

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