James Noronha

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General Manager | TURBOCAM Energy Solutions

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As a student ready to go to engineering school, James was interested in learning cutting edge science and dreamed of creating new technologies. He also loved competing with his track team, and looked forward to the next challenge. He found it when he saw the news from the fronts of the Iraq and Afghan wars—stories of Marines fighting through cities and up mountains with camaraderie and a drive to create a better world.

James trained in ROTC while studying mechanical engineering. He spent most of his summers at Marine training schools, but interned at TURBOCAM during two available breaks. When he graduated he went into active duty service and selected infantry as his specialty, which he knew would give him direct leadership in the most challenging situations. The Marine Corps delivered as expected, and sent him from training school to a battalion on its way to Afghanistan. He trained the Afghan Army and coordinated their operations from a group of outposts in Helmand Province. After they returned, he commanded Marines in training exercises throughout the Pacific.

He came to work at TURBOCAM after he finished his service. He found that many of the skills he learned in the Marines were valuable at TURBOCAM.

James is now the General Manager of TURBOCAM Energy Solutions. He enjoys working with his team to engineer new metal technologies and processes, and he finds the new applications exciting. With TURBOCAM exploring new markets and opportunities around the world, he’s sure there will be adventure ahead.

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James Waters

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James Waters is the director of the Kingdom Impact Framework (KIF) at Eido Research. This is an entrepreneurial project he launched two years ago after spending some years as an international development consultant, and previously an academic researcher. He has a passion for Kingdom business and community development done really well, documenting impact, and local and global missions.

James’ current work on the KIF sees him engaging with Christian development organisations, businesses, and impact funds. He travels extensively, currently piloting the tool in different organizations around the world. His last role at Arup International Development involved providing strategic and technical advice to large development organisations. Previously, his research projects included understanding the use of natural resources in townships in South Africa and investigating the resilience of slum-dwellers in Uganda.

Life:

Part-time, James leads “Burn 24-7,” a worship and prayer movement in the UK. He is leading a European youth prayer event this summer called Uprising Europe. He loves equipping churches, speaking all over the UK, and is on the Council of Reference for a church, as well as on the prayer core team of the “Europe Shall be Saved” network. He lives in London where he enjoys playing sport with friends when not travelling!

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Greg Leith

CEO | Convene

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Greg Leith was born in Canada and lived in all four corners of North America. His career spans over 35 years of senior leadership roles in corporate, non-profit and academic sectors. Recently, he served as Director of Strategic Alliances for 13 years at Biola University in California.

Greg has served the persecuted church with food, brought relief and long term jobs to Orissa, India, assisted mission agencies in China with strategy and helped envision a School of Journalism in Haiti. He and Shelley, his wife of 38 years, have crisscrossed Canada for over a decade speaking on marriage and parenting for FamilyLife helping thousands of marriages.

Greg was a senior executive for 20 years with the $9 billion ServiceMaster Company, serving in various leadership capacities. He was Vice President of Arrow Leadership and Director of Leadership Development for Christian Leadership Alliance, creating learning experiences for the most influential Christian organizations in the world.

Life:

Greg has been married for over 38 years to his wife Shelley, and he’s the father and friend to five thriving young adults.

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Greg Lernihan

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Chairman | Impact Foundation

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Greg is committed to making a positive difference in the lives of others and has refocused his life with this purpose.  He currently dedicates his time to mentoring budding entrepreneurs, investing in impact-related companies, and supporting Christian ministries passionately serving Chicago and other parts of the world. Greg is Co-Founder of Convergint Technologies. Started in a basement in 2001, Convergint is now the world’s largest privately held electronic security firm with over 2,400 colleagues globally. Greg spent 20 years at Siemens before leaving as Sr. Vice President for North America. Active in professional and civic organizations, Greg mentors inner-city youth and serves on several boards, including a national entrepreneurship program for high school students, Impact Engine, and other impact companies he has invested in.

Life:

Greg earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Business from Purdue University. He is married and has been blessed with three children and two grandchildren. 

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Gregory Spencer

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Independent Consultant

Greg Spencer is as much at home in a village in East Africa as he is in the mountains of Park City, Utah where he grew up. At age 23, he stepped off the airplane in Nairobi as an under qualified but eager co-founder of The Paradigm Project, a last-mile clean energy distribution business. After 10 years of launching and operating social enterprises in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda, seeing opportunity in emerging markets has become his norm. Building diverse teams to deliver social, environmental and economic impact has been the avenue to achieve Greg’s long-standing desire to reach underserved communities.

Currently, Greg is working to leverage his decade of experience in social and environmental impact to create a non-profit impact exchange that quantifies, verifies, economically values and trades impact as a new asset class. He sees the exchange, Common Good Marketplace, as an important piece in catalyzing a new marketplace to drive greater impact results that bring prosperity to people and the planet.

Greg met his wife of four years, Elizabeth, in East Africa while she was working for the President of Malawi. Currently they live in North Carolina in a converted 2001 Bluebird school bus with their two children and a vizsla.

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Harry Nelson

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President-Elect | North Carolina Baptist Foundation

Harry Nelson serves as the President-Elect of the North Carolina Baptist Foundation. He was elected in May, 2023 and will serve a transition period with retiring President, Dr. Clay Warf until the end of 2023. He will become President and CEO on January 1, 2024.

Harry joined the Foundation on June 1, 2023. Prior to joining the foundation, he served as Chief Operating Officer for Eventide Asset Management, as well as other roles with Eventide. Before that, Harry was President of GuideStone Capital Management. He has an extensive investment and financial services career having held leadership roles at GuideStone, Golden Capital Management (now Allspring Global Investments), Charles Schwab, and First Union (now Wells Fargo) Institutional Trust division.

Harry earned a BA at The Citadel and a MA in Leadership from Dallas Baptist University. He has earned a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®) designation from the Investments and Wealth Institute and taught in conjunction with the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Harry has served on the Board of the Charlotte Institute of Faith and Work and the Christian Investment Forum. He is a member of the Southeastern Society at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and is a member of Faith Baptist Church in Youngsville, NC. Harry enjoys spending time with his family and is a trail runner.