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CIO, Director of Family Offices | Paradiem

Andrew received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Southeastern Louisiana University, where he met his beautiful wife Bethany. Andrew and Bethany are passionate about serving others with the love of Jesus. They volunteer with local Louisiana ministries, such as the New Orleans Mission, the Northshore Food Bank, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and their church, First Baptist Church Covington, where they teach a Sunday School Class. As the CIO and Director of Family Offices for Paradiem, Andrew devotes this same level of passion and care in serving families and business owners.

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Founder | Valued Business

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Valued Business works with businesses and leaders to enable them to connect their values with what they do. Andrew is passionate about helping business leaders identify their values, work out how to integrate them on a practical level, and then communicate them.

He currently works on a retained basis on two key projects with Cornerstone and CBMC in addition to some smaller one-off projects.
If you are interested in finding out more email: andrew@valued-business.com

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Founding Partner | Ad Astra

Allison Long Pettine is an investor and entrepreneur passionate about redefining wealth. She recently founded Ad Astra Ventures, a fund dedicated to empowering founders of high growth startups with at least one female co-founder. She is President of Crescent Ridge Partners, Founding Partner at SEED San Diego, and co-founder of Lymber, which was sold to MindBody in 2017. Allison began her career at a New-York based venture capital company focused on cutting-edge orthopedic medical device technologies, where she worked on the venture side and as an early employee at one of their portfolio companies. Allison is a mentor at Tech Stars, sits on the advisory board of UCSD’s The Basement incubator, and is on the Board of the Long Family Foundation.

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Director of Faith-Based Initiatives | Calvert Impact Capital

Amanda is Director of Faith-Based Initiatives, serving as a resource for faith-based investors on their impact investing journeys. She partners with faith leaders and networks to build the capacity and community of practicing faith-based impact investors.

Prior to joining Calvert Impact Capital, Amanda worked at Opportunity Finance Network, the nation’s leading association of community development financial institutions (CDFIs) committed to providing affordable, responsible capital and financial services to communities not served by mainstream finance. There she worked with CDFI funders, investors, and practitioners as Senior Vice President, Development, and previously as Vice President, Strategic Consulting.

She has held had senior management roles at a technology company assisting Americans to sustainably move out of poverty and for a decade-plus at Jewish Funds for Justice/The Shefa Fund where she managed the first and only national initiative to organize the American Jewish community to invest in low-wealth communities across the county.

Amanda has prior experience as a commercial loan officer for the Self-Help Credit Union, and has worked with a range of mission-driven organizations. She holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management, and an AB from Bryn Mawr College.

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Amanda Lawson is a Writer and Content Coordinator for Faith Driven Media. She is also a Research Associate in the John W Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she works in the L.I.F.E. (Leading the Integration of Faith and Entrepreneurship) Research Lab.

Prior to this, she completed a Master’s degree from Miami University in Foreign Relations History, during which time she was published in several academic journals. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Living Hope Mission, a faith-based 501(c)3 in Cap Haitien, Haiti, dedicated to empowering children and families by partnering with local church leadership to develop physically, emotionally, and spiritually healthy communities.

Born and raised in Lima, Ohio, Amanda made her way to Southwest Ohio after stints in Columbus, Ohio and Herforst, Germany. She lives in a small town surrounded by corn fields and spends most of her time in the woods or the local coffee shop.