Tim Sittema

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Managing Partner | Crosland Southeast

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Tim is a Managing Partner of Crosland Southeast and is responsible for strategic growth, management and capital markets. Tim is also very involved operationally in all development and acquisition efforts. Prior to the formation of Crosland Southeast, Mr. Sittema served as President of Crosland Investment Services. From 2005-2009, he served as a Lead Developer for Crosland Retail where he focused on identifying and leading development efforts for new retail and mixed-use opportunities throughout the Carolinas, Tennessee and Kentucky.

Prior to joining Crosland, Sittema served as President for Sittema Properties, Inc., in Colorado. While there he specialized in retail development projects in the Rocky Mountain States including several complex land assemblage projects. Previously he was a Managing Partner for Sittema-Bullock Realty Partners and Marketing Principal for Trammell Crow Company. Mr. Sittema has over 30 years’ experience in the shopping center industry, is married and has 4 children and is very involved in his community and in philanthropic endeavors.

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TJ Abood

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Partner | Access Ventures

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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.

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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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Toby Kilgore

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Chief Operating Officer | Sinapsis

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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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Toby Kurth

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Lead Pastor | Christ Church San Francisco

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Toby’s family has been in California for four generations and he was raised mostly in San Diego and Monterey.  He and his wife Rebekah were married in San Diego in 1999 and have three active and fun boys aged 15, 10, and 7.  Toby earned his BS from UC Davis and after spending a number of years in the marketplace, he went back to school to pursue a masters at Westminster Seminary in California and a PhD at Stony Brook University in New York. While living in Brooklyn, God redirected Toby and Rebekah towards full-time ministry, and they came home to California in 2009 to plant a church in San Francisco.

As Lead Pastor, his primary responsibilities include preaching, counseling, leadership development, and providing directional leadership for our church.  

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Todd Wagner

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FOUNDER | WATERMARK COMMUNITY CHURCH 

Todd Wagner and a small group of friends established Watermark Community Church in Dallas, Texas in November 1999. Watermark was born out of a desire to connect people with the richness, adventure, and fullness of life that comes through Christ alone and to reach the unchurched, de-churched, dead-churched, and unmoved. Todd serves as Senior Pastor and Elder at Watermark, which has become one of the largest and fastest-growing churches in the United States. Watermark is also home to The Porch, one of the largest ministries to young adults in the country, as well as the Church Leaders Conference, which exists to encourage and challenge other leaders and faith communities with God’s vision for His Church.

Under Todd’s leadership, Watermark was recognized as the “Best Places to Work” in Dallas-Fort Worth by The Dallas Morning News in 2019. Out of conviction, Watermark has operated debt free since its inception.

Todd is the author of Come and See: Everything You Ever Wanted in the One Place You Would Never Look. He has been a keynote speaker at national and international leadership conferences and a guest contributor to The Dallas Morning News and other media outlets. His weekly video podcast, “Real Truth Real Quick” reaches tens of thousands of people each month.

Todd and his wife, Alex, alongside their six children and grandchildren, love to live, laugh, and serve together in Dallas, Texas.

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