Jordan Izumi

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Vice President – National Accounts & DCIO Sales | Crossmark

Bio:

Jordan Izumi serves as Vice President – National Accounts & DCIO Sales at Crossmark Global Investments. He is responsible for relationship management and building and enhancing Crossmark’s platform of investment solutions with intermediary distribution partners.

Jordan has a decade of experience in financial services. In 2015, he joined Crossmark from AG Financial Solutions where he focused on workplace retirement plans and values-based investments.

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Josh Kwan

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Co-Founder | Praxis

Bio:

Josh finds joy in building high-impact organizations that create enduring value. He co-founded Praxis while he was the Director of International Giving for the David Weekley Family Foundation, where he divided his time between conducting due diligence on innovative social enterprises and helping portfolio organizations scale their impact; he continues to advise DWFF on grantmaking and impact investing.

Josh is a founding board member of Village Schools International, a ministry that has started more than 30 high schools in Africa. He also served on the founding executive committee of the Big Bang Philanthropy Group. Previously, Josh worked as a journalist and was published in The San Jose Mercury News, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. Josh also co-founded and serves on the board of Carpenters Code.

Life:

He graduated from Harvard and earned an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. He lives with his family near San Francisco.

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Josh Ruyle

Director | Hope Global Investment Fund

Bio:

Prior to joining HOPE, Josh served as general manager of Opportunity International’s Microcredit Company in East Asia. He began working with HOPE in 2010 alongside Beth, his wife, as HOPE’s East Asia country director and then as Asia and Eastern Europe regional director.  Prior to assuming his current role leading HOPE Global Investments, Josh oversaw HOPE’s strategic push into SME lending, training, and auxiliary services.  In addition to his work at HOPE, Josh is actively working with Beth’s family to assume ownership over a 55-employee company based in northeast Iowa.

Josh holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from Arizona State University, an advanced Chinese language studies certificate, and an M.A. in international development and economics from Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Washington, D.C., with Beth and their three boys, Hudson Taylor, John Elliot, and Enoch Adoniram.

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HOPE Global Investments: Moving Capital and Discipleship Around the World

HOPE Global Investments: Moving Capital and Discipleship Around the World

HOPE International’s journey into deepened support for SME business owners across our network began in many ways with the Login family of Western Ukraine. We had the privilege of watching as their microbusiness – a bike shop – blossomed into a platform for real impact in their home village, namely, helping adolescents with a tendency to turn their backs on family and fall into drugs and alcohol addiction in their teenage years.

Joel Morris

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Executive Director | Union Foundation

Dr. Joel Morris is the Executive Director of Union Foundation, overseeing the strategic and operational direction of the organisation. He is a leader and trustee of Grace Community Church, Porthcawl. He has been a missionary working in 28 countries with Operation Mobilisation before obtaining a doctorate and beginning a career in Materials Engineering which took him from Aerospace to the Nuclear sector. 

Prior to joining Union, he was Assistant Professor at the Seoul National University in South Korea. He has extensive experience in bringing technology research to market, and in creating industrially sponsored University projects. He also started his own company specialising in aerospace technology, spun out of Swansea University. 

Joel is married to Hye Lim and they have three children.

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The European Collaboration

The European Collaboration

Genuine biblical fellowship doesn’t create solitary oak trees standing alone but fosters a forest of friends standing together for the gospel.


Cheerful vs. Reluctant Philantropy

Cheerful vs. Reluctant Philantropy

Generosity is at the core of the Christian life and our experience of God. God doesn’t give sparingly; He gives us abundantly more than we can ask or think. We become cheerful in our giving by giving like God, where His grace has been working in our hearts to abound in generosity to others.

Johan Du Preez

CEO | SAAD Investment Holdings

Bio:

Johan Du Preez began his career in the USA (California, 1991) where he specialised in the turnaround of large retail “drug” stores (for American Drug Stores, a retail group that owned more than 700 stores). He then moved on to managed healthcare (medical insurance and risk management) and was part of a core team that created a national claims processor (RxAmerica) allowing pharmacies to submit their claims to medical insurers online and in real-time (via a satellite link).

Upon his return to South Africa he was instrumental in the turnaround of Sanlam Health (health insurance, CEO 1999 – 2001), led Glacier by Sanlam (retail investments, CEO 2002 – 2004) and headed the start-up of the financing company Quince Capital (CEO 2006 – 2009).

He recently acted as the CEO of the then JSE listed pharmaceutical company Cipla Medpro South Africa (August 2012 to June 2013) and during this time concluded a R4.5bn transaction with Cipla India that saw the delisting of Cipla Medpro. During his involvement with the Sanlam group he served on the Executive committees of Sanlam Life and Sanlam Investment Management.

Johan obtained the degree M. Pharm in 1989 (University of Pretoria) and holds an MBA from National University in San Diego, California (1996).

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Episode 105 - Investing in Partnerships with Johan du Preez


Episode 105 – Investing in Partnerships with Johan du Preez


Johan du Preez says,“Capital always has an agenda. Whether by design or default, explicit or subtle, positive or negative, the application of capital facilitates and drives a bigger agenda.” Find out how this philosophy guides him to invest in partnerships that benefit the Kingdom, not just the marketplace.


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U-Turn retail stores as an example of an impact-focused social enterprise

U-Turn retail stores as an example of an impact-focused social enterprise

Our observation in the Christian investment ecosystem is that there is a high presence of social impact opportunities in Third World countries but, at the same time, a lack of capital.


A Solution for the Lack of Collective Christian Capital (CCC)

A Solution for the Lack of Collective Christian Capital (CCC)

Capital always has an agenda. Whether by design or default, explicit or subtle, positive or negative, the application of capital facilitates and drives a bigger agenda.


Display An Alternative Way Until They Ask You About It

Display An Alternative Way Until They Ask You About It

A calling to represent the Kingdom in the business world carries with it some of the best fringe benefits (when compared to other callings), but it also brings significant responsibility.


Balancing Financial Returns and Impact in Private Equity Investments

Balancing Financial Returns and Impact in Private Equity Investments

Investments reward shareholders by increasing value (increased share price) and/or generating income (dividends). In short, we can refer to these as the economic benefits of ownership/financial returns from investments. A shareholder may be primarily interested in one or the other (value or income), or may want a healthy balance.

John and Ashely Marsh

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Marsh Collective

John:

John Marsh is the Co-Founder of Marsh Collective and host of the Redemptification Podcast, serial entrepreneur, a consultant helping steward over $1b in redemptive real estate in 9 small towns (with populations of  800-180k) around America, with love for building things that are beautiful and meaningful.  

Over the last 25 years, John and Ashely have guided over 40 startup businesses in various industries, such as the Construction, Real Estate Investing, Advertising, and also multiple Restaurants. John and his wife have renovated 220+ buildings within 10 blocks of downtown Opelika to help save their city. Today, John’s current focus is on helping others make generational differences in their communities and companies by helping patrons bridge the gap between redeeming vision and execution.

Enneagram: 3 / 5 VOICES: Connector Creative

Lover of: Statistics, Measuring all things, Overcomplicated Smoothies

Ashley:

Ashely is the Co-Founder of Marsh Collective and has guided 40 startups with John over the last 25 years. Along with John, and now the team at Marsh Collective, she has pioneered the redeeming of Opelika historic downtown, and placemaking in cities across the country. Ashely runs the real estate development and management, a hospitality design company, The Southerly event venue and community, and works with the team to foster a generational difference in communities and places.

Curator of all things beautiful. People, places and spaces.

Enneagram: 8 / 5 VOICES: Guardian Nurturer

Lover of: Fast cars, & pull up bars  

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Episode 119 - A New Class of Community with John and Ashely Marsh


Episode 119 – A New Class of Community with John and Ashely Marsh


John and Ashely Marsh have dedicated themselves to the resurrection of place in the historic downtown of Opelika, Alabama. They share more about a new class of community.