Links:

• Website

Founder and chairman | Capital III

Bio:

Pete Ochs is founder and chairman of Capital III, an impact investment company with investments in the US and Central America.  Enterprise Stewardship is an initiative of Capital III that equips marketplace leaders with resources to transform their personal LIFE and business enterprises. During his four decades in business he has invested and operated companies in the energy, manufacturing, banking, and education sectors, often times focusing on places devoid of human flourishing such as prisons and poverty-stricken countries. Pete’s passion in life is to educate, equip, and empower business leaders around the world to live for something greater than themselves by using their business platform to impact the world for Christ.  

Pete lives by four simple principles: Honor God; Serve People; Pursue Excellence; and Steward Capital.   These four simple but powerful principles when brought to bear on creating Economic, Social and Spiritual Capital result in a High Impact LIFE.   

Before launching his impact investment company Capital III, Pete spent 8 years in the commercial banking industry. Pete and his wife Debbie have been instrumental in founding and growing several nonprofit enterprises. They live in Valley Center, Kansas.  They have 2 children and 8 grandchildren.

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Links: 

• HOPE International

• Personal Website

President | Hope International

Bio:

Prior to joining HOPE, Peter worked internationally as a micro-finance advisor in Cambodia, technical advisor for Self-Help Development Foundation in Zimbabwe, and managing director for Urwego Community Bank in Rwanda. He received a B.S. in international business from Messiah College and an MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School.

As an advocate for the Church’s role in missions and alleviating extreme poverty, Peter has been a speaker at a number of conferences, and he has been featured by Christianity Today, World, Forbes, CNN, and RELEVANT. He has also written The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good (with Anna Haggard, 2013), Mission Drift (with Chris Horst, 2014; selected as a 2015 Book Award Winner from Christianity Today), Entrepreneurship for Human Flourishing (with Chris Horst, 2014), Stop Helping Us (2014), Watching Seeds Grow (with his son Keith, 2014), The Giver and the Gift (with David Weekley, 2015), 40/40 Vision (with Greg Lafferty, 2015), Created to Flourish (with Phil Smith, 2016), The Board and the CEO (with David Weekley, 2017), and Rooting for Rivals (with Chris Horst, 2018).

Currently, Peter serves as the entrepreneur-in-residence at Messiah College and as a Praxis Venture Partner.

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CEO | ROAM

Born and raised in Atlanta, GA, Peyton Day grew up watching his father build the Days Inn brand. After graduating from Georgia Tech and the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, Day joined commercial real estate developer, Trammell Crow.

Since then he has held a series of progressive roles in the real estate, hospitality and investment industries, including having served as Chairman and CEO of Day Hospitality Group, which developed and managed award-winning properties for the Marriott and Hilton hotel brands. Day contributes his hospitality experience and leadership to Roam as the organization’s CEO. He enjoys having the opportunity to watch countless entrepreneurs and non-profits start, grow and scale their businesses because of the Roam community.

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Links: 

• LinkedIn

Managing Partner & Founder | Creation Investments

Mr. Fisher founded Creation in 2007, leaving JPMorgan with a vision to find profitable solutions to difficult social and environmental challenges. He is a leader in the financial services industry globally and leads all aspects of the firm’s operations. Mr. Fisher chairs the firm’s Investment Committee and sits on the board of several of the firm’s portfolio companies globally, along with other for-profit and not-for-profit institutions.

Mr. Fisher graduated from the University of Notre Dame and received his MBA from Northwestern University.  He speaks basic Chinese and is fluent in Spanish. Mr. Fisher lives in Chicago with his wife, three children, and dog Bacon.

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Links: 

• LinkedIn

• TrustBridge global

Executive Vice President | TrustBridge Global Foundation

Paul Bolte is the Executive Vice President for TrustBridge Global Foundation. He brings to TrustBridge his entrepreneurial background, having established and run a successful franchising business in the U.S. He was the Founder, President and CEO of Bartercard USA from September 2012 to May 2018, and prior to that, the CEO of Bartercard New Zealand for five and a half years.
Paul is a committed Christian and embarked on a new journey of faith in business as he built Bartercard USA from the ground up on those same values. Paul thrives on helping like-minded believers understand how to find their purpose in doing God’s business in the marketplace.
Paul comes from a multi-generational family of Christian faith. His brother is an ordained pastor
and now the Field Director of the Australia National Prayer Network, his 84-year-old mother has
been a lay preacher since the age of 16. 

Paul graduated from the University of New South Wales, Australia with a Bachelor of Science with Honors. He has strong people, system, and number skills, and together with the rest of the TrustBridge team, is building a network that supports the efficient worldwide administration of generosity. His efforts include outreach to Europe, Americas, South Asia, Sub-Sharan Africa and Oceania.

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