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Founder and Managing Director at Re:Frontier

Curt Laird is one of the most experienced foreign entrepreneurs in frontier markets. Having worked in over thirty countries, he spent fourteen years in Afghanistan, where he was a founding executive director of Roshan, Afghanistan’s largest mobile phone operator; launched his own fifty-employee training company; and founded the Business Innovation Hub, a business accelerator at the American University of Afghanistan. He is currently consulting for startups in Nigeria. During his time in Afghanistan, Curt met his future wife, Katrina, a British-Finnish international development professional working on conflict and security sector reform. They have two children, Soraya Kaija and Josiah Jaya, each of whom have four citizenships and the same peripatetic life their parents grew up experiencing.

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• LinkedIn

• YouTube

Producer and Director | The Chosen

Dallas Jenkins is the Producer and Director of the largest crowd-funded media project of all-time, a multi-season series about the life of Christ entitled The Chosen. He is son of celebrated Left Behind author Jerry Jenkins. He produced the independent feature “Hometown Legend” at the age of 25 and shepherded it to distribution by Warner Brothers. He has directed and produced over a dozen feature and short films for companies such as Universal, Lionsgate, Pureflix, Hallmark Channel, and Amazon. His most recent film, “The Resurrection of Gavin Stone”, released in theaters in 2017. He is now directing and producing the largest crowdfunded media project of all-time, a multi-season series about the life of Christ entitled “The Chosen”.

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• Canapi

Managing Partner | Canapi

Chip Mahan has built his career revolutionizing the banking industry.

He founded and currently serves as CEO and chairman of Live Oak Bancshares, headquartered in Wilmington, NC. Its commercial banking subsidiary, Live Oak Bank, specializes in providing lending and deposit services to small businesses nationwide. Live Oak Bank was selected as the winner of the 2018 BAI Global Innovation Awards in the internal process innovation category for converting all bank operations to the cloud.

Chip serves on the board of directors for Apiture, a joint venture between Live Oak and First Data which focuses on creating next-gen technology for financial institutions. He is also a director of Payrailz, a digital payments company which offers advanced solutions for the financial services industry. Chip is a co-founder of nCino, a cloud-based banking software built on the Salesforce platform.

Chip was the CEO and chairman of S1 Corporation and founder of Security First Network Bank, one of the world’s first internet banks. He began his career in 1973 at Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in economics from Washington & Lee University.

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MANAGING DIRECTOR | RESOUND STRUCTURED CAPITAL

Bio:

Chris Conant is an accomplished speaker, author, international business consultant, serial entrepreneur, and investor. Chris has founded, grown, managed, and sold three branding and PR businesses over his 23-year career. He has created and impacted servant-leadership cultures for hundreds of employees. His passion is and has always been to create massive stakeholder value for social, economic, and spiritual impact on the nations. He is a mentor and advisor to numerous faith-driven entrepreneurs and sits on two boards.

Over the last seven years, Chris founded the Psalm6835 Funds, Monmouth Society, Resound Structured Capital, and other kingdom-focused management companies and funds.

His calling is to encourage a large network of Kingdom-minded investors to make private equity investments in the most underserved U.S. missionary today: the Christian CEO/owner.

Investments are values-aligned opportunities in single and multipurpose positions in the form of several dozen early equity, pre and post-revenue, value-creating, and market-rate return investments in start-ups.

Our funds are increasing significantly in 2021-2022 due to recent and favorable SEC Reg CF changes that provide accessibility for all faith-driven investors, from the widow’s “mite” to the “rich young ruler.”

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• LinkedIn

• Personal Website

Chief Advancement Officer | HOPE International

Bio:

Chris Horst is the chief advancement officer at HOPE International, where he employs his passion for advancing initiatives at the intersection of faith and work. In addition to his role at HOPE, Chris spends an alarming percentage of his free time tending to his yard with all of the loving care normally afforded to newborn children. He and his wife, Alli, have four human children of whom they are even prouder than their lawn—Desmond, Abe, June, and Mack. As a dad to four kiddos, Chris has recently undergone a radical transformation from self-proclaimed foodie to a man who prepares far more trays of chicken nuggets than avocado toast. He wouldn’t change it.

Chris serves on the boards of the Denver Institute for Faith & Work and the Mile High WorkShop. He loves to write, having been published in The Denver Post and Christianity Today and co-authored Mission Drift,Entrepreneurship for Human Flourishing, and Rooting for Rivals with Peter Greer. Christianity Today, WORLD Magazine, and the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association named Mission Drift a book of the year in 2015. Chris was a very average student, but he did graduate with both a bachelor’s degree from Taylor University and an MBA from Bakke Graduate University.

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Trustee | Maclellan Foundation

Bio:

Mr. Maclellan serves as a Trustee for the Maclellan Foundation. He is Chairman of the Investment Committee and serves on the Grant Committee, which donates approximately $27 million per year toward evangelism, leadership development, Church planting, and encouraging generous giving. He is also Chairman of the Mission Related Investment Committee, which oversees a $15 million impact fund that invests in global projects that fulfill the Foundation’s mission while seeking a market rate of return. The Maclellan Foundation was founded in 1947 and is located in Chattanooga, TN.

After working 8 years for the family’s insurance company, Chris focused his career on private equity investing and starting new ventures.   He founded an insurance brokerage firm, two Internet ventures, a real estate company, and a billboard company. Chris graduated from Wheaton College in 1986 and earned an MBA from the University of Virginia (Darden) in 1991.  He serves on several local and national boards.

Life:

Chris is married to Susan, and they have four boys, ages 16 to 27. They attend Calvary Chapel Chattanooga. They enjoy traveling and visiting mission organizations and business as mission ventures.  Their family lived in Rome, Italy in 1998 – 1999 and served there with Italy for Christ and with Covenant College in Slovakia.