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Founder and CEO | Garden City

Michael currently serves as the Founder and CEO of Garden City, a purpose-driven buyout holding company that has raised $40M of permanent capital to buy, grow, and forever-hold service companies across the Southeast. Once acquired, Garden City seeks to grow them through culture, technology and sales.

Most recently, Michael was an early employee at DocuSign where he served as Global Vice President, General Manager, and Chief of Staff to the CEO. DocuSign has now achieved a $40B market cap with 5,000 employees.

In 2016, he founded MAV Ventures, a venture capital group that has invested in over twenty companies ranging from technology to healthcare to consumer goods.

Michael co-founded New Story, a non-profit that has built 2,000+ homes in developing countries and recognized for creating the world’s first-ever 3D Home Printer. Year ago, he was recognized by Forbes as “30 under 30” for his social entrepreneurship work. He graduated from the University of Alabama with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Management, now lives in Atlanta and has a wife and two children.

Mike is a follower of Jesus and seeks to honor God in everything he does.

Executive Director | The Chalmers Center

Bio:

Michael has a Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Covenant Theological Seminary and is completing a Doctorate in Ministry from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Earlier in his career, Michael worked as a manager with Accenture for eight years, focusing on mergers and acquisitions in the financial services industry.

He then served as a vice-president with Bank of America, where he focused on process design in the Wealth Management division. After moving to the nonprofit world, he served for almost three years as a missionary in Spain with World Harvest Mission. Most recently, Michael worked as Executive Director of Third Millennium Ministries in Orlando, Florida.

Life:

Michael and his wife, Kathryn, have three children.

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Owner | Hayden Harper Holdings

Bio:

After graduating from Miami University, Mike moved to North Carolina to pursue a career in business. In 2002, after working for a couple of years in investments, he realized he didn’t want to be beholden to a corporation anymore. It was after this realization he made the decision to start Hayden Harper, a financial advisory firm.

Mike has run and grown Hayden Harper for the past 17 years, including a re-launch in 2007 after God gave him a renewed vision and purpose to impact and enrich lives for the glory of Christ through the work of Hayden Harper. In 2009,

Mike started an energy business and held the position of Founder/CFO until it was sold in 2014. Always an opportunist, he decided to re-start his family’s pipe distribution company in 2012, which he still oversees today. Since 2014, he has bought and sold various other businesses, always looking for a good investment, and a chance to improve processes and teams. Mike is a visionary, passionate about his work and cares about challenging the people around him to grow into their fullest potential and to live in the freedom that Christ offers.

Life:

Mike has been married to his wife, Kathleen, for 19 years. Together they have 4 children; 3 teenage boys + a 10 year old girl. Mike and Kathleen enjoy a busy life in Charlotte, NC with their active kids. They are grateful for the journey God has them on; running and building businesses with a kingdom mindset. In addition, they have a heart for hospitality and enjoy the chance to connect with friends near and far.

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Managing Director | TMG Capital

Bio:

Michael McNinch has a financial background that includes managing, advising, and investing in companies in the US, Europe, and Middle East.

He is currently a principal with a private investment firm that provides capital to small and middle market growth companies with proven business models in a broad range of industries. They seek to invest in companies that offer a compelling return on investment, limited downside risk, and management teams that share our values.

He has a desire to work with entrepreneurs in a spirit of partnership to create and enhance value.

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CEO | LivFul Inc.

Michael is an entrepreneur, investor, and attorney who has co-founded and led multiple early stage companies that have raised cumulatively more than USD12M of investment. He leads LivFul’s board of directors as Chairman and the company as CEO. Previously, as CEO of GBDbio, he was successful in obtaining the support of a diverse stakeholder and shareholder group that included major global charitable funders and NGOs, as well as institutional, social impact and individual investors. GBDbio was an early stage biotechnology company attempting to develop the world’s first low-cost rapid diagnostic test for tuberculosis. As a practicing corporate attorney, he executed capital fundraisings, M&A transactions, and counseled clients on general corporate and board governance matters.

He lives in Temple, Texas, USA with his wife, Brittany. They have two children in college and three still at home. He and his wife are passionate about issues confronting the global poor, especially regarding orphan care, global health, poverty eradication through entrepreneurship and international education. Michael received his law degree, with honors, from the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, Texas and his bachelor’s degree, cum laude, in International Studies from Austin College in Sherman, Texas.

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Lecturer in Old Testament | Carey Baptist College

Michael started at Carey in 2021.  He teaches Carey’s undergraduate Old Testament courses and also co-teaches courses in the postgraduate program and supervises MA theses. 

Michael holds a PhD in Divinity from the University of Aberdeen/Trinity College Bristol. His dissertation explored how the Deuteronomic tithe meal and Corinthian Lord’s Supper served as morally transformative feasts that shaped the community for holiness, justice, mercy, and solidarity. Prior to coming to Carey, Michael spent 7 years working for Christian community development programs, first in Kenya, and then in the economically impoverished South Memphis community where his family lives. In addition to this extensive community development experience, he has also been involved in racially and economically diverse church plants since 2009, and is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.   Michael’s passion is to help the church hear and respond to God’s call in Scripture to become a community that embodies Jesus’s good news for the poor. As a result he has studied and published works on economic discipleship, racial justice, and poverty in Scripture, at both the academic and popular level. 

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