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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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• www.BAMglobal.org  

• Wealth Creation

• Freedom Business Alliance

Bio:

Mats Tunehag is speaker, writer and consultant from Sweden and has worked in more than half the countries of the world. For over 20 years he has had a special focus on developing the Business as Mission, BAM, concept as well as national, regional and global strategic alliances of people and BAM initiatives.

In 2002 he initiated and co-led the first global think tank on BAM, which produced the Lausanne Paper on BAM as well as the BAM Manifesto (2004).  In 2011 he and Mrs Jo Plummer developed another much bigger global think tank on Business as Mission with over 30 national, regional and international working groups. Tunehag is the Chairman of BAM Global. See 

Tunehag was also the Convener of the Global Consultation on the Role of Wealth Creation for Holistic Transformation. See 

Tunehag has served for many years as a senior leader on Business as Mission in both the Lausanne Movement and World Evangelical Alliance, and he lectures globally on Business as Mission. 

Tunehag also serves part-time with a global investment fund based on Christian values that helps SMEs to grow in size and holistic impact in the Arab world and Asia, by providing financial, intellectual and human capital.

He served on the Global Council of Advocates International, a global network of 30 000 lawyers in over 120 countries. (2008 – 2014)

Tunehag is the Chairman of the Freedom Business Alliance.

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President | LivFul

Bio:

Matt Elsberry is an explorer and adventurer who loves working and interacting with people from different cultural backgrounds. After helping a nonprofit expand from 3 to 80 countries in six years, Matt decided to dedicate his life to blurring the line between mission and business.

He and his wife spent five years in Jakarta, Indonesia, building the kingdom of God while they increased the Bumi Raya Group’s profitability through their three listed companies and several private ones. He sees his work at LivFul as a shining example of how a company can build the kingdom while building a profitable business.

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Vice President | NCF Heartland

Bio:

Matt joined NCF in 2019 as vice president of NCF Heartland in Overland Park, Kansas. He leads a regional effort with a strategic emphasis on the Kansas City metro area. “I build relationships with new and existing givers, connecting them with the larger giving community and increasing awareness on NCF’s wise and innovative giving strategies,” he said.

Prior to NCF, Matt was director of operations for five years at The Hope Center, a comprehensive community development organization in east Kansas City, Missouri. While there, he spearheaded real estate and economic development initiatives and oversaw day-to-day activities.

Matt is a lifelong learner. He’s an MBA graduate of Washington University in St. Louis. He also holds a master of divinity degree from Denver Seminary and a bachelor of science degree in social sciences from the U.S. Air Force Academy, followed by 12 years of service in the U.S. Air Force.

Combining his passion for the Lord and his love of sports, Matt is a chaplain with Baseball Chapel, an international ministry recognized by Major and Minor League Baseball. He serves as the chaplain leader for the Kansas City Royals. His sports career also includes a two-year stint as a receiver and punt returner for the New York Jets.

Life:

He and his wife, Jenna, live in Kansas City, Missouri, with their three boys. The Farmers operate a small business focused on providing quality, customer-focused housing in Kansas City’s east side.

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Founder | Glass Financial Group

Matt Glass is an entrepreneur and humanitarian. Matt is the founder of Glass Financial Group and K&S Media. Glass Financial Group focuses on sound financial solutions in the Greenville, S.C area, while K&S Media strives to be an outlet for practical steps in establishing the Kingdom in the marketplace. As for Matt’s humanitarian efforts, he previously founded Fully Persuaded, a nonprofit ministry that focused on going outside the walls of the church and serving the people of the community. Matt currently sits on the board of SWITCH, a nonprofit, anti-human trafficking organization that is making a difference in the upstate of South Carolina. Matt also is blessed with his most important focus, which is spending time with his wife Natalie and two daughters, Lexie and Lennon.

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