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Co-Founder | Verdant Frontiers

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Scott Friesen is a serial entrepreneur who has started, grown, and sold companies since 1998. He has helped to orchestrate the sale of three of U.S.-based businesses in technology, media, and online advertising. He’s led sales, operations, and technology teams and has a track record of producing consistent growth and profitability.

More recently, he co-founded Verdant Frontiers and has started five companies in Ethiopia with the goal of creating an industrial revolution in the country.

Life:

Scott is the proud co-founder of a family of three children who live together in Austin.

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CEO | LCM Group, Inc.

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D. Scott Luttrell is CEO and Chief Investment Officer for LCM Group, a privately-owned diversified investment company and family office headquartered in Dallas, Texas.  Mr. Luttrell founded LCM Group in 1988 to focus on the growing opportunities in the alternative investment sector, including hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, private real estate, and private debt. Mr. Luttrell launched his first hedge fund in 1988, and after three years merged his investment firm’s global macro investment fund with that of Caxton Associates, LLC,  where he was responsible for portfolio risk management and the firm’s global fixed income group.

Mr. Luttrell currently serves on the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Investment Committee for the YMCA Retirement Fund, a $7.5 billion retirement fund serving the employees of the YMCA. Mr. Luttrell also serves on several private company Boards and is active in various academic and community organizations including serving on Southern Methodist University’s Cox School Executive Board and the Cox School Alternative Asset Management Center Board of Advisors, is Chairman of the Board of East-West Ministries, Board of Directors of HOI (Helping Others Internationally), and the Board of Trustees to the National Christian Foundation of North Texas. Additionally Mr. Luttrell serves as Chairman of the Board of Advisors to specialty lender North Avenue Capital and private equity firms Ballast Point Ventures, Mangrove Partners, Coltala Partners and Indigena Holdings. Mr. Luttrell is Founder and Trustee of The Light Foundation.

Mr. Luttrell served for twelve years on the Board of Directors of Florida Bank Group, Inc., a Federal Reserve regulated bank holding company, until its sale to IberiaBank (IBKC: NASDAQ) and served for fourteen years on the Board of Directors of Cbeyond, Inc. (CBEY:NASDAQ) prior to its sale to Birch Communications.

Mr. Luttrell received his degree in Business Administration/Finance in 1977 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. In 2001, Mr. Luttrell attended Harvard Business School’s Executive Education program in Corporate Governance. Mr. Luttrell and his wife, Laura, have been married 41 years and have two adult children and two grandchildren. The Luttrell family are active members of Watermark Community Church.

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CEO | Bonvera

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Bob Dickie was the president of Crown Financial Ministries for seven years. He stepped down in May 2018 to start a “Transformative Business” with the goal of building a market in the US and abroad for moringa and other cash crops grown by graduates of Crown Stewardship Schools around the world. He is leveraging his previous experience as a CEO for an international company (which he helped triple in size from 2004–2009) with his deep desire to help the world’s poor not only with resources but also by helping them understanding their identity and purpose in Christ. Bob also served for over six years as a captain in the United States Air Force.

Bob has served on multiple boards. He is the former chairman of All Grace Outreach and Kindred Spirit and served on the board of YPO Greater Detroit, Heart of Knoxville, and Angel Capital Group.

In 2015 Bob released his first book, The Leap: Building a Full-Time Life in a Part-Time World. This was followed in 2017 by his second book, LOVE YOUR WORK: 4 Practical Ways to Pivot to Your Best Career.

 Life:

Bob and his wife Brandi have been happily married for 24 years and have been blessed with six precious children. They both are graduates of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where Brandi also earned her master’s degree in deaf education. Bob earned his master’s degree from the University of Arkansas in industrial engineering and is in the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program.

Bob and Brandi live in Knoxville, Tennessee. Brandi is an avid photographer and Bob is a competitive Spartan Race enthusiast.

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Client Advisor | Caprock

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At Caprock, Robert advises families and foundations to help steward investment assets toward financial and impact objectives.  In this role, Robert assists in a) helping families articulate their values and mission and b) developing and managing values-driven investment portfolios.  Robert also launched a Faith-Driven Investing practice at Caprock in 2015.  Robert is a member of the Investment Committee.  Prior to Caprock, Robert invested in private companies committed to creating positive change.  Robert holds a Business Administration undergraduate degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a MBA from the University of Michigan.  Caprock is a multi-family office with 10+ years of experience in impact investing, helping families deploy more than $1 billion in ESG & impact investments.  Caprock is also a founding B Corp member. 

Life:

Robert spent a good chunk of his 20s and 30s traveling to different parts of the world on short-term mission trips, ranging from serving Native American tribes in South Dakota to underprivileged youth in Mongolia.  It was on these trips Robert started imagining the role of investing as a tool to uplift communities – as a conduit of God’s blessings.

Robert moved out to Bay Area with pretty much one suitcase (and his fair share of student debt) to work as an unpaid intern at an impact fund.  While living on his friend’s couch for six months was not fun, it was an incredibly rewarding experience and the best career decision he’s made.  Robert grew up in Korea and now lives in San Jose with his wife and his son.

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CEO | Keel Point

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Robert Mayes is the Chief Executive Officer of Keel Point. Mayes was the CEO and a founding partner of BlueCreek Investment Partners, and joined Keel Point through the BlueCreek/Keel Point merger.

During his 20 years with the firm, he also worked as a Portfolio Manager and Branch Officer from 1996 to 1999. Robert began his career in financial planning and asset management with Merrill Lynch in 1982.

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President and CEO | Inspire Investing

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Robert is a globally recognized authority in the Biblically Responsible Investing (BRI) movement, author of the Amazon #1 best-selling book “Biblically Responsible Investing” and is the Founder and CEO of Inspire Investing, the world’s largest provider of faith-based ETFs.

Robert is a frequent contributor on FOX Business, Bloomberg, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Christian Post and other major global media for his thought leadership in the faith-based, environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing marketplace. 

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