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• LinkedIn

Founder and Chairman | Radical

David Platt serves as Lead Pastor at McLean Bible Church in Washington, D.C. He is the founder and chairman of Radical.

Books by David Platt include Radical, Radical Together, Follow Me, Counter Culture, Something Needs to Change, and Before You Vote, as well as the following volumes in the Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary series: Exalting Jesus in Matthew, Exalting Jesus in James, Exalting Jesus in 1 & 2 Timothy and Titus, and Exalting Jesus in Galatians.

David Platt received his Ph.D. from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Along with his wife and children, he lives in the Washington D.C. metro area.

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• LinkedIn

• Invesco RE

• Dottid

Founder | Invesco Real Estate

David A. Ridley is an accomplished entrepreneur, investor, and CEO who’s a frequent speaker and consultant around building enduring organizations including the establishment of exceptional organizational culture and practices enabling a “Success Without Regrets” ethos.

David founded Invesco Real Estate (IRE) in 1983.  As CEO and then advisor to IRE for 32 years between 1983 and 2015, he was responsible for developing the firm’s investment processes, operating policies, staffing, operating philosophy and cultural values. Under David’s direction, the firm grew into a multi-national company with more than 400 employees and more than $70 billion in assets under management, one of the largest and most successful real estate funds management firms in the world.

Partner | roam

On the same day of his graduation from the University of Georgia, David Salyers took his first job at Chick-fil-A where he was one of two original marketing executives. He spent 37 years in the Marketing Department, eventually serving as Vice President before his retirement in 2018.

Salyers was instrumental in the growth and development of the iconic ‘Eat Mor Chikin’ cow campaign at Chick-fil-A and helped champion a marketing department that rose to international prominence. At Roam, Salyers acts as Partner and has been integral in establishing Roam’s culture of servant leadership, generosity and hospitality. He is passionate about Roam’s purpose-driven mission and finding new ways to create remarkable experiences for customers.

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Managing Partner and Founder | Talanton

Bio:

David Simms is Managing Partner and Founder of Talanton, a Kingdom-impact investment firm. He focuses on opportunities to create jobs, bring hope, and transform lives for people living in poverty in the developing world, with a special focus on East Africa. Talanton mobilizes purpose-driven and generally tax-deductible investment capital through a unique model into a pooled Kingdom impact fund where the investments generate scalable, sustainable and transformational impact by being invested in growth-stage companies creating good jobs in the developing world.  Investment returns then flow back into  the donor-investors’ donor advised fund, family foundation, or source of origin thereby preserving and growing the donor’s capital for future giving or other investing.

Prior to founding Talanton, David served as a Managing Director at Impact Foundation. Previously he served as president of Opportunity U.S., a global microfinance organization serving 12 million clients. He has chaired the U.S., Global, and MicroEnsure boards over decades of involvement with Opportunity—from when it served fewer than 1,000 families.

David’s career spans executive roles in financial services, management consulting, government, and nonprofits. He has served as a Partner with Bridgespan, S.E.V.P. at MBNA America, CEO of the American Red Cross Washington/Baltimore Blood Services Region, and was a White House Fellow. David started his career at Bain.

He holds an MBA and a JD from Harvard and has earned two bachelor’s degrees in economics and applied science from the University of Pennsylvania (summa cum laude).

 Life:

David and Kim celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary in October. They live in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and have two wonderful adult sons, Stephen and Ryan.

Impact Investor | International Development Professional

Dana views all of her treasure, time and talent as gifts from God that are meant to be stewarded towards three ends – for God’s glory, the good of others and for our own well-being. The investment of our capital is an expression of our management of God’s resources in such a way that one day we hear “well done, good and faithful servant.” She aligns her investing and philanthropy with the specific areas God has called her, seeking sustainable impact. Over the past 10 years, she has come to understand that both our charitable capital and our personal capital can have faith-driven impact for spiritual and social good. She increasingly directs a sizable portion of the charitable capital in her family foundation towards impact investing.

Dana is an international development professional with 20 years at USAID and Department of Commerce. She has years of experience advising nonprofits engaged nationally and globally across many sectors, including micro-finance and private sector engagement. She is active in The Gathering, Generous Giving, Praxis, and Lion’s Den. She is an FDE small group facilitator and is on the FDI leadership team launching a citywide network in the DC Metro area to develop a local community of faith driven entrepreneurs and investors. She holds an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University. Dana finds joy in helping organizations problem-solve, generating creative and faithful solutions. She loves to create community around ideas, connecting transcendent truth in both relational depth and practical application.

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• LinkedIn

Managing Director | Cornerstone

Bio:

Daniel owns a property development company in Belfast, Ireland, called Cornerstone (NI) Ltd and is passionate about Impact driven business with kingdom transformation. Cornerstone specialise in regeneration through building sustainable communities with the goal to create buildings that bring light and hope to the community. Daniel is committed to developing sites that have been neglected and have a negative impact on their community, often because of the lack of hope left by Belfast’s historic conflict. He is on a mission to ‘Light up the dark corners of the city’, to see buildings and neighbour hoods redeemed, and to point the people that connect to their developments to Jesus. Cornerstone has been developing a relationship with Apartment Life and will be Europe’s first expression of Apartment Life in 2021.