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Chief Investment Officer | The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust

Bio:

Elmer Huh joined The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust in 2017. He has more than 20 years in the field of public/private equity and alternative investing and joined the Trust from Ernst & Young Capital Advisors in New York City, where he served as senior vice president of investment banking and alternative asset managers.

Elmer graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Business Administration focused on international finance and accounting from the Columbia Business School.

Life:

He serves actively on the boards of international and local non-profit organizations and enjoys coaching sports, teaching and traveling. Elmer, his wife Esther, and two of their three children will move from Scarsdale, New York, to the Vancouver area this summer.

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Managing Principal | Nexus Impact Advisors

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With more than a dozen years of professional experience in the areas of impact investing, social entrepreneurship, and international development, Endel is passionate about empowering clients with the tools, knowledge, and insights to deploy their capital in ways that are both purposeful and profitable.

Prior to founding Nexus Impact Advisors, Endel was a strategy consultant for The Carpenter’s Fund, an impact investment intermediary that connects Christian investors with values-aligned investment opportunities around the world. He also served as a senior consultant to Global Health Visions, a boutique consulting firm that provides expertise and guidance in the formulation and implementation of global health initiatives. In these roles, Endel oversaw a range of in-depth research and advisory projects including organizational evaluations, investment due diligence, landscape & market analyses, strategic planning, and investment vehicle structuring. He has expertise in applying mixed-methods research tools and in-depth analysis to develop evidence-based, data-driven, actionable results for clients.

Endel formerly served as the director of communications at America Abroad Media, an international affairs media firm based in Washington, D.C. Before this, Endel worked as senior officer at the John Templeton Foundation, where he managed the Foundation’s market-based solutions to poverty and agricultural biotechnology portfolios. Endel began his career as an account manager and client advisor at the international philanthropic advisory firm Geneva Global.

Having traveled to more than 50 countries, Endel has broad experience in the areas of impact investing, international development, and global health. While living and working as a missionary in Cochabamba, Bolivia, he founded Niños con Valor, an organization working to improve the lives of at-risk Bolivian children. Endel attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees. He is fluent in Spanish.

Endel and his wife, Kate, live in Washington, D.C. and are active members of Restoration Anglican Church in Arlington, Virginia.

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Chairman | David Weekley Homes

In 1976, 23-year-old David Weekley started his own home building company. Now more than 40 years later, the company has sold more than 100,000 homes and expanded to 19 cities across the nation.

As a result of his progressive management methodologies where people are the primary focus of the organization, the company has been named to FORTUNE “100 Best Companies to Work For®” list 15 times. David has also received recognition for his leadership talents and many community outreach efforts in addition to building innovative, high-quality homes.

David earned degrees in Economics and Geology from San Antonio’s Trinity University. He and his wife, Bonnie, have three children and eight grandchildren.

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Bio:

David Wills is passionate about generosity and eternity, so he invests his time helping others lay-up treasure in heaven and taking hold of life that is truly life. David wears several hats within the NCF organization including President Emeritus and National Relationship Manager. David is the co-author of two books, Investing in God’s Business and Family.Money. He earned a BBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from Baylor University, a JD from Baylor Law School and completed post-graduate work at Dallas Theological Seminary and Harvard’s Kennedy School.

David serves on numerous boards, including Generous Giving (of which he is also a co-founder), Impact Foundation, Global Generosity, Hope for the Heart, ProVision Foundation, The River Foundation, Trust Bridge Global Foundation, iDonate and the Advisory Board of Barnhart Crane and Rigging in Memphis, TN. He also works in the area of advocacy, serving on the Strategy Board for the Alliance for Charitable Reform (ACR) and as a consultant for the Maclellan Foundation in Chattanooga, TN.

Life:

Texas natives, David and his wife Chris have been married for 25 years and live on a tiny ranch just outside Waco, Texas with some of their seven children. (4 of them are currently teenagers!)

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Founder and President | Hilltop Residential

Mr. Wylie and has been in the multifamily investment business since 2000, having received national recognition for his performance in the apartment market across Texas and the United States. During his 19 years in the industry, Mr. Wylie has been involved in over $15 billion of multifamily transactions serving as Vice Chairman at Newmark Knight Frank (FKA Apartment Realty Advisors).

While serving as Vice Chairman in the ARA/NKF Houston office, David was responsible for the recruitment, growth, and development of the 40 people on the ARA Multifamily Investment Sales Team, the ARA Land Team, and the ARA Capital Markets Team. Under his leadership, the ARA/NKF Team grew from $300 million in multifamily sales in the early 2000’s, to nearly $4 billion in sales and capital markets in 2018.
Mr. Wylie’s deep relationships in the industry, as well as his extensive experience in identifying investment opportunities, are integral pieces to the Hilltop team.

Ambassador’s Impact Network

Bio:

Dean is the founding partner and Chief Executive Officer of Macfarlan Capital Partners. With over 40 years of industry experience in the development, acquisition and sale of investment properties exceeding the $1 billion mark in value, he provides the vision, strategic guidance and entrepreneurial leadership to their company.

Dean started his career at Hank Dickerson and Company, a major Dallas real estate brokerage firm, where he learned the commercial brokerage business from the ground up. After four years with Dickerson, he took $250,000 in personal savings and a vision: not to be the biggest, but to be the best, real estate investment company in the region and established DDM Investments in 1984. His national reputation has been developed based on three guiding principles: providing investor partners and clients with superior investments based on quality real estate, cultivating an efficient investment process, and a developing a team that is committed to integrity.